RHSA-2018:1224 — Security Advisory

An update for PackageKit is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

PackageKit is a D-Bus abstraction layer that allows the session user to manage packages in a secure way using a cross-distribution, cross-architecture API.

Security Fix(es):

• PackageKit: authentication bypass allows to install signed packages without administrator privileges (CVE-2018-1106)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Red Hat would like to thank Matthias Gerstner (SUSE) for reporting this issue.