-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 _______________________________________________________________________ Mandriva Linux Security Advisory MDVSA-2011:086 http://www.mandriva.com/security/ _______________________________________________________________________ Package : polkit Date : May 16, 2011 Affected: 2010.1 _______________________________________________________________________ Problem Description: A vulnerability has been found and corrected in polkit: A race condition flaw was found in the PolicyKit pkexec utility and polkitd daemon. A local user could use this flaw to appear as a privileged user to pkexec, allowing them to execute arbitrary commands as root by running those commands with pkexec (CVE-2011-1485). The updated packages have been patched to correct this issue. _______________________________________________________________________ References: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2011-1485 _______________________________________________________________________ Updated Packages: Mandriva Linux 2010.1: 6052bdd9c2612edbe64a16ba5e5099cb 2010.1/i586/libpolkit1_0-0.96-2.1mdv2010.2.i586.rpm 7a034bdcf757bc1e5883d798a4f28d1c 2010.1/i586/libpolkit1-devel-0.96-2.1mdv2010.2.i586.rpm 6fb9bd449e65d293bc69c03740db8d5f 2010.1/i586/polkit-0.96-2.1mdv2010.2.i586.rpm be925eb746fce0c406c623e345929d29 2010.1/SRPMS/polkit-0.96-2.1mdv2010.2.src.rpm Mandriva Linux 2010.1/X86_64: 3ba97482125ab02a75eb6fc860f9f224 2010.1/x86_64/lib64polkit1_0-0.96-2.1mdv2010.2.x86_64.rpm ceb8d48886baf234922d00a024db96ce 2010.1/x86_64/lib64polkit1-devel-0.96-2.1mdv2010.2.x86_64.rpm 9b0c45b8933dd25379f784876ffbb1d5 2010.1/x86_64/polkit-0.96-2.1mdv2010.2.x86_64.rpm be925eb746fce0c406c623e345929d29 2010.1/SRPMS/polkit-0.96-2.1mdv2010.2.src.rpm _______________________________________________________________________ To upgrade automatically use MandrivaUpdate or urpmi. The verification of md5 checksums and GPG signatures is performed automatically for you. All packages are signed by Mandriva for security. You can obtain the GPG public key of the Mandriva Security Team by executing: gpg --recv-keys --keyserver pgp.mit.edu 0x22458A98 You can view other update advisories for Mandriva Linux at: http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories If you want to report vulnerabilities, please contact security_(at)_mandriva.com _______________________________________________________________________ Type Bits/KeyID Date User ID pub 1024D/22458A98 2000-07-10 Mandriva Security Team -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFN0KkXmqjQ0CJFipgRApwKAJ9RzRdnAPmPjnpOx9fd9MTbMPDGwACdHbit ltRLZTGNWwRO1P/LFVnwwnk= =qd50 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/