Oval Definition:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:15134
Revision Date:2014-06-23Version:20
Title:DSA-2319-1 policykit-1 -- race condition
Description:Neel Mehta discovered that a race condition in Policykit, a framework for managing administrative policies and privileges, allowed local users to elevate privileges by executing a setuid program from pkexec. The oldstable distribution does not contain the policykit-1 package.
Family:unixClass:patch
Status:ACCEPTEDReference(s):CVE-2011-1485
DSA-2319-1
Platform(s):Debian GNU/kFreeBSD 6.0
Debian GNU/Linux 6.0
Product(s):policykit-1
Definition Synopsis
  • Debian 6.0 is installed
  • AND GNU/Linux or GNU/kFreeBSD kernel
  • Debian GNU/Linux is installed
  • OR Debian GNU/kFreeBSD is installed
  • AND Installed architecture is all
  • AND policykit-1 DPKG is earlier than 0.96-4+squeeze1
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