CVE-2011-4945 Information

Description

PolicyKit 0.103 sets the AdminIdentities to \wheel\ by default which allows local users in the wheel group to gain root privileges without authentication.

Reference

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/PolicyKit/commit/?id=763faf434b445c20ae9529100d3ef5290976d0c9 http://patch-tracker.debian.org/patch/series/view/policykit-1/0.104-2/05_revert-admin-identities-unix-group-wheel.patch http://secunia.com/advisories/48817 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201204-06.xml http://www.mail-archive.com/polkit-devel@lists.freedesktop.org/msg00327.html http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/28/1 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/28/2 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=401513 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/policykit-1/0.103-1