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Posted on 08 October 2011
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Debian Security Advisory DSA-2319-1 security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/ Thijs Kinkhorst
October 8, 2011 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package : policykit-1
Vulnerability : race condition
Problem type : local
Debian-specific: no
CVE ID : CVE-2011-1485
Debian Bug : 644500
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 (lenny) does not contain the policykit-1
package.
For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in
version 0.96-4+squeeze1.
For the testing distribution (wheezy) and unstable distribution (sid),
this problem has been fixed in version 0.101-4.
We recommend that you upgrade your policykit-1 packages.
Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: http://www.debian.org/security/
Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
