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Debian Security Advisory DSA 2319-1 (policykit-1)

Information

Severity

Severity

Medium

Family

Family

Debian Local Security Checks

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

6.9

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

12 years ago

Modified

Modified

2 years ago

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.

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