> Debian Bookworm PackageKit Local Privilege Escalation Advisory DSA-6226-1
[DATE: 22/04/2026 12:26]
[LANGUAGE: EN]
Maik Schaefer discovered that a TOCTOU race condition in PackageKit (a package management service over a DBus interface) could result in local privilege escalation. For the oldstable distribution (bookworm), this problem has been fixed in version 1.2.6-5+deb12u1.