[Forgot Password]
Login  Register Subscribe

30389

 
 

423868

 
 

244411

 
 

909

 
 

193363

 
 

277

Paid content will be excluded from the download.


Download | Alert*
OVAL

RHSA-2011:0455-01 -- Redhat polkit

ID: oval:org.secpod.oval:def:500109Date: (C)2012-01-31   (M)2021-09-30
Class: PATCHFamily: unix




PolicyKit is a toolkit for defining and handling authorizations. A race condition flaw was found in the PolicyKit pkexec utility and polkitd daemon. A local user could use this flaw to appear as a privileged user to pkexec, allowing them to execute arbitrary commands as root by running those commands with pkexec. Red Hat would like to thank Neel Mehta of Google for reporting this issue. All polkit users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to correct this issue. The system must be rebooted for this update to take effect.

Platform:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Product:
polkit
Reference:
RHSA-2011:0455-01
CVE-2011-1485
CVE    1
CVE-2011-1485
CPE    2
cpe:/a:polkit_project:polkit
cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6

© SecPod Technologies