security/vuxml: document vulnerability in sysutils/polkit
Cedric Buissart reports: The function `polkit_system_bus_name_get_creds_sync` is used to get the uid and pid of the process requesting the action. It does this by sending the unique bus name of the requesting process, which is typically something like ":1.96", to `dbus-daemon`. These unique names are assigned and managed by `dbus-daemon` and cannot be forged, so this is a good way to check the privileges of the requesting process. The vulnerability happens when the requesting process disconnects from `dbus-daemon` just before the call to `polkit_system_bus_name_get_creds_sync` starts. In this scenario, the unique bus name is no longer valid, so `dbus-daemon` sends back an error reply. This error case is handled in `polkit_system_bus_name_get_creds_sync` by setting the value of the `error` parameter, but it still returns `TRUE`, rather than `FALSE`. This behavior means that all callers of `polkit_system_bus_name_get_creds_sync` need to carefully check whether an error was set. If the calling function forgets to check for errors then it will think that the uid of the requesting process is 0 (because the `AsyncGetBusNameCredsData` struct is zero initialized). In other words, it will think that the action was requested by a root process, and will therefore allow it. PR: 256405 Security: CVE-2021-3560 polkit
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