CVE-2011-1485 Information

Description

Race condition in the pkexec utility and polkitd daemon in PolicyKit (aka polkit) 0.96 allows local users to gain privileges by executing a setuid program from pkexec related to the use of the effective user ID instead of the real user ID.

Reference

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058752.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-May/059859.html http://secunia.com/advisories/48817 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201204-06.xml http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8424 http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2319 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:086 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0455.html http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1117-1 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=692922