A vulnerability in Polkit’s pkexec component could allow for local privilege escalation. Polkit (formerly PolicyKit) is a component for controlling system-wide privileges in Unix-like operating systems. It provides an organized way for non-privileged processes to communicate with privileged ones. Polkit is installed by default on all major Linux distributions. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could result in privilege escalation to root privileges.
Category Archives: Advisories
DSA-5063 uriparser – security update
Two vulnerabilities were discovered in uriparser, a library that parses
Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs), which may result in denial of
service or potentially in the execution of arbitrary code.
A Vulnerability in F5Networks BIG-IP Could Allow for Denial of Service
A vulnerability has been discovered in F5Networks BIG-IP, which could result in a denial-of-service (DoS). BIG-IP is a family of products covering software and hardware designed around application availability, access control, and security solutions. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to cause a denial of service to all servers sitting behind the BIG-IP system.
DSA-5062 nss – security update
Tavis Ormandy discovered that incorrect parsing of pkcs7 sequences in
nss, the Mozilla Network Security Service library, may result in denial
of service.
DSA-5061 wpewebkit – security update
The following vulnerabilities have been discovered in the wpewebkit
web engine:
DSA-5060 webkit2gtk – security update
The following vulnerabilities have been discovered in the webkit2gtk
web engine:
DSA-5059 policykit-1 – security update
The Qualys Research Labs discovered a local privilege escalation in
PolicyKit’s pkexec.
DSA-5058 openjdk-17 – security update
Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the OpenJDK Java runtime,
which may result in denial of service, bypass of deserialization
restrictions or information disclosure.
DSA-5057 openjdk-11 – security update
Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the OpenJDK Java runtime,
which may result in denial of service, bypass of deserialization
restrictions or information disclosure.
DSA-5056 strongswan – security update
Zhuowei Zhang discovered a bug in the EAP authentication client code of
strongSwan, an IKE/IPsec suite, that may allow to bypass the client and in some
scenarios even the server authentication, or could lead to a denial-of-service
attack.