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[meta-oe,08/13] polkit: add info about CVE-2016-2568

Message ID 20260223191850.1049304-8-skandigraun@gmail.com
State New
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Series [meta-oe,01/13] freerdp: patch CVE-2026-22852 | expand

Commit Message

Gyorgy Sarvari Feb. 23, 2026, 7:18 p.m. UTC 
Details: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-2568

This commit mostly just tries to add some info to this issue, in the
hope that it will save some time for others who try to investigate it.

This CVE most probably will stay open in meta-oe in the foreseeable future,
although it can be mitigated reasonably easily by the users of the layer.

The description of the vulnerability is short enough that it can be
reproduced here: "pkexec, when used with --user nonpriv, allows local
users to escape to the parent session via a crafted TIOCSTI ioctl call,
which pushes characters to the terminal's input buffer."

The general consensus amongst developers/major distros[1][2][3] seems to be that
it should be mitigated on the kernel side, to not allow non-privileged
users to fake input.

To this end, the kernel has introduced a new config in v6.2, called
CONFIG_LEGACY_TIOCSTI - when it is enabled, non-privileged used can
also fake input. It is however by default enabled (and it is also enabled
in the kernels shipped in oe-core, at least at the time of writing this).

Disabling this kernel config is considered to be the mitigation, to allow
input-faking only by privileged users.

[1]: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-2568
[2]: https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=968674
[3]: https://marc.info/?t=145694748900001&r=1&w=2 / https://marc.info/?l=util-linux-ng&m=145702209921574&w=2

Signed-off-by: Gyorgy Sarvari <skandigraun@gmail.com>
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 meta-oe/recipes-extended/polkit/polkit_127.bb | 2 ++
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diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/polkit/polkit_127.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/polkit/polkit_127.bb
index 40eca9f9ee..f97c6efbf7 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/polkit/polkit_127.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/polkit/polkit_127.bb
@@ -65,3 +65,5 @@  FILES:${PN} += " \
 	${systemd_unitdir}/system/polkit-agent-helper.socket \
 	${systemd_unitdir}/system/polkit-agent-helper@.service \
 "
+
+CVE_STATUS[CVE-2016-2568] = "unpatched: the fix is a kernel compiled without CONFIG_LEGACY_TIOCSTI"