Devuan bug report logs - #268
policykit-1: CVE-2018-19788

Severity: critical;
Package: policykit-1; Reported by: Berbe <bernard+devuan@rosset.net>;
Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2018 17:48:01 UTC;
merged with #269; Done: KatolaZ <katolaz@freaknet.org>;
Maintainer for policykit-1 is (unknown).

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Subject: bug#268: mmhhh
Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2018 10:17:18 +0100
From: KatolaZ <katolaz@freaknet.org>
To: 268@bugs.devuan.org


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There is no need to become root in order to use `service`:

$ /usr/sbin/service nginx status
[ ok ] nginx is running.
$

Even with a user with id larger than 4000000000:

$ sudo -u testpolkit /usr/sbin/service nginx stop
[....] Stopping nginx: nginxstart-stop-daemon: warning: failed to kill 2509: Operation not permitted
. ok
$

That's because sudo does *not* use policykit to test user privileges
(rather, it uses its own config files). So maybe this is not
applicable in this case?

HND

KatolaZ



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