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Debian Security Advisory DSA 2319-1 (policykit-1)
Information
Severity
Severity
Family
Family
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
Solution Type
Solution Type
Created
Created
Modified
Modified
Summary
The remote host is missing an update to policykit-1 announced via advisory DSA 2319-1.
Insight
Insight
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.
Solution
Solution
We recommend that you upgrade your policykit-1 packages.