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Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : polkit (MDVSA-2011:086)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 53910

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Synopsis

The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

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.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 53910

File Name: mandriva_MDVSA-2011-086.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Published: 5/16/2011

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: 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: p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:polkit, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:lib64polkit1_0, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:lib64polkit1-devel, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:libpolkit1_0, cpe:/o:mandriva:linux:2010.1, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:libpolkit1-devel

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/16/2011

Exploitable With

CANVAS (CANVAS)

Core Impact

Metasploit (Linux PolicyKit Race Condition Privilege Escalation)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-1485

BID: 47496

MDVSA: 2011:086