polkit: Multiple vulnerabilities Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in polkit, the worst of which could result in privilege escalation. polkit 2019-08-15 2019-08-15 661470 672578 remote 0.115-r2 0.115-r2

polkit is a toolkit for managing policies relating to unprivileged processes communicating with privileged processes.

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in polkit. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details.

There is no known workaround at this time.

All polkit users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=sys-auth/polkit-0.115-r2" CVE-2018-1116 CVE-2018-19788 b-man b-man