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CVE-2018-19788: Privilege escalation issue, uid greater than INT_MAX can successfully execute any systemctl command.

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CVE-2018-19788

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

A flaw was found in PolicyKit (aka polkit) 0.115 that allows a user with a uid greater than INT_MAX to successfully execute any systemctl command.

Find out more about CVE-2018-19788 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary […]

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