BSD Ports

Vulnerable: version 127nb2 is affected by 1 known vulnerability. See below.

security/polkit 127nb2 NetBSD

Authorization Manager

System
NetBSD
Repository
pkgsrc
Maintainer
[email protected]
Last update
Commit
fb886d373d
License
gnu-lgpl-v2
Categories
security
Package size
190.1 KiB, 1177.3 KiB installed

Description

PolicyKit is a toolkit for defining and handling authorizations. It is used for allowing unprivileged processes to speak to privileged processes.

In the other systems

SystemPortVersion
NetBSDsecurity/polkit127nb2
FreeBSDsysutils/polkit128
OpenBSDsysutils/polkit128p0
DragonFlysysutils/polkit125_1
MidnightBSDsysutils/polkit127_1
HardenedBSDsysutils/polkit127
GhostBSDsysutils/polkit127

Install

Binary package:

pkgin install polkit

From pkgsrc:

cd /usr/pkgsrc/security/polkit && make install clean

Packages

The version each package repository carries. “-” means the repository builds no package of it, “n/a” that there is no such repository.

RepositoryVersion
NetBSD 10.1 x86_64127nb2
NetBSD 10.1 aarch64127
SmartOS / illumos x86_64128
macOS 15 arm64128

Dependencies

Run dependencies 2

Known vulnerabilities 1

Commit history 5

DateCommitCreditsLog message
fb886d373d wiz polkit: update to 128.
All pkgsrc patches were merged upstream. ## polkit 128 ### Highlights: - fix two authentication-helper input vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-4897 and CVE-2026-85498) [7e122c8, eea1729] - sanitize values written to syslog from authorization requests [9dca831] - fix a use-after-free in the authentication agent's session handling [6f3cec7] - revalidate the administrator behind cached `auth_admin_keep` authorizations [9a49bd6] - fix agent cleanup races, resource leaks, and several error-path leaks [148422b, 4e67dde, 8ceeed8, ac4d9ac, dae50d6] - support systemd watchdog notifications and locked system accounts with systemd 257+ [b3492d5, 13276c1] - improve FreeBSD and Solaris portability, including tests without Linux user namespaces [c3aefa7, 3111583, 72c2878, 0453c24] …
7b5a3977f9 wiz *: recursive bump for pcre2 10.49
204ac6b2b7 tnn *: revbump for pcre2 symbol versioning change
962cd66c49 nia polkit: Fix building on FreeBSD.
5e4aea17e2 wiz *: recursive bump for pcre2 10.48