{"id":4246,"date":"2022-02-07T21:30:15","date_gmt":"2022-02-07T21:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/?p=4246"},"modified":"2022-02-07T21:30:15","modified_gmt":"2022-02-07T21:30:15","slug":"pwnkit-polkits-pkexec-exploit-cve-2021-4034","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/2022\/02\/07\/pwnkit-polkits-pkexec-exploit-cve-2021-4034\/","title":{"rendered":"PwnKit (polkit&#8217;s pkexec exploit) &#8211; CVE-2021-4034"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The update fixing the issue for Mageia 8 was released Wed, 26 Jan 2022 10:31 UTC (05:31 EST).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For anyone still running Mageia 7 (or older releases), the recommendation is \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As root run &#8220;chmod 0755 \/usr\/bin\/pkexec&#8221;.<br \/>That will mean pkexec doesn&#8217;t work anymore. Running things like rpmdrake as a<br \/>regular user will not work. You must use an alternative approach to get root<br \/>privileges (open a terminal, use &#8220;su -&#8221; and then run rpmdrake or use sudo rpmdrake<br \/>if you&#8217;ve configured sudo).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The update fixing the issue for Mageia 8 was released Wed, 26 Jan 2022 10:31 UTC (05:31 EST). For anyone still running Mageia 7 (or older releases), the recommendation is \u2026 As root run &#8220;chmod 0755 \/usr\/bin\/pkexec&#8221;.That will mean pkexec &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/2022\/02\/07\/pwnkit-polkits-pkexec-exploit-cve-2021-4034\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[124,136,159,173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mageia-2","category-qa-2","category-security","category-updates"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p159kA-16u","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4246"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4247,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4246\/revisions\/4247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}