CVE-2011-4945

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.

References

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/policykit-1/0.103-1

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=401513

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/28/2

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/28/1

http://www.mail-archive.com/polkit-devel%40lists.freedesktop.org/msg00327.html

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201204-06.xml

http://secunia.com/advisories/48817

http://patch-tracker.debian.org/patch/series/view/policykit-1/0.104-2/05_revert-admin-identities-unix-group-wheel.patch

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/PolicyKit/commit/?id=763faf434b445c20ae9529100d3ef5290976d0c9

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3