Shawn,

While this fixes the symptom, I think that this is actually a systemd bug
as well. Libvirt handles incorrect UID entries correctly.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1657021

The error handling in the authorization stack probably needs to be analyzed.

On Thu, Dec 6, 2018 at 2:23 PM Shawn Wells <[email protected]> wrote:

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> On 12/6/18 2:20 PM, Shawn Wells wrote:
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> On 12/6/18 2:18 PM, Shawn Wells wrote:
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> On 12/6/18 2:13 PM, Trevor Vaughan wrote:
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> On a related note to pkexec, anyone know how to mitigate this?
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> https://thehackernews.com/2018/12/linux-user-privilege-policykit.html
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> https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2018-19788
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> "Do not allow negative UIDs or UIDs greater than 2147483646."
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> ....... which is weird, since patches were upstream:
> -
> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/zbyszek/polkit/commit/fbaab32cb4ed9ed5f1e3eea6cd317d443aa427dc
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> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/zbyszek/polkit/commit/7c8c3abdedbb991a69bc5f1ab0f96576958b55de
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> I'll ask around on the RHEL product security team to see what's up.
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> If anyone wants to follow along:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1655925
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> update: RHEL7 patch currently going through QA and should be released
> shortly.
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