All errata/p11/ALT-PU-2026-6721-2
ALT-PU-2026-6721-2

Package update packagekit in branch p11

Version1.3.5-alt1
Task#416139
Published2026-05-03
Max severityHIGH
Severity:

Closed issues (2)

BDU:2026-05781
HIGH8.8

Уязвимость пакетного менеджера PackageKit, связанная с ошибками синхронизации при использовании общего ресурса («Ситуация гонки»), позволяющая нарушителю получить несанкционированный доступ к системе с правами root

Published: 2026-04-24Modified: 2026-04-27
CVSS 3.xHIGH 8.8
CVSS:3.x/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0MEDIUM 6.8
CVSS:2.0/AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
References
CVE-2026-41651
HIGH8.8

PackageKit is a a D-Bus abstraction layer that allows the user to manage packages in a secure way using a cross-distro, cross-architecture API. PackageKit between and including versions 1.0.2 and 1.3.4 is vulnerable to a time-of-check time-of-use (TOCTOU) race condition on transaction flags that allows unprivileged users to install packages as root and thus leads to a local privilege escalation. This is patched in version 1.3.5. A local unprivileged user can install arbitrary RPM packages as root, including executing RPM scriptlets, without authentication. The vulnerability is a TOCTOU race condition on `transaction->cached_transaction_flags` combined with a silent state-machine guard that discards illegal backward transitions while leaving corrupted flags in place. Three bugs exist in `src/pk-transaction.c`: 1. Unconditional flag overwrite (line 4036): `InstallFiles()` writes caller-supplied flags to `transaction->cached_transaction_flags` without checking whether the transaction has already been authorized/started. A second call blindly overwrites the flags even while the transaction is RUNNING. 2. Silent state-transition rejection (lines 873–882): `pk_transaction_set_state()` silently discards backward state transitions (e.g. `RUNNING` → `WAITING_FOR_AUTH`) but the flag overwrite at step 1 already happened. The transaction continues running with corrupted flags. 3. Late flag read at execution time (lines 2273–2277): The scheduler's idle callback reads cached_transaction_flags at dispatch time, not at authorization time. If flags were overwritten between authorization and execution, the backend sees the attacker's flags.

Published: 2026-04-22Modified: 2026-05-05
CVSS 3.xHIGH 8.8
CVSS:3.x/CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
References