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Fedora 15 : polkit-0.101-5.fc15 (2011-5589)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 53537

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

- Bug #692922 - CVE-2011-1485 polkitd/pkexec vulnerability

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected polkit package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=692922

http://www.nessus.org/u?36adaa85

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 53537

File Name: fedora_2011-5589.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/23/2011

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 8.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.9

Temporal Score: 5.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:15, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:polkit

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/20/2011

Exploitable With

CANVAS (CANVAS)

Core Impact

Metasploit (Linux PolicyKit Race Condition Privilege Escalation)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-1485

BID: 47496

FEDORA: 2011-5589