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openSUSE Security Update : libpolkit0 (openSUSE-SU-2011:0413-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 75915

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

A race condition exists in pkexec while trying to determine its caller which could lead to privilege escalation. CVE-2011-1485 has been assigned to this issue.

Solution

Update the affected libpolkit0 packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=638784

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=688788

https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2011-04/msg00081.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 75915

File Name: suse_11_4_libpolkit0-110427.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/13/2014

Updated: 1/14/2021

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 8.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.9

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:polkit-devel, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:11.4, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:polkit-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libpolkit0-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:polkit-devel-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libpolkit0-debuginfo-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:polkit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libpolkit0-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libpolkit0, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:polkit-debuginfo

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/27/2011

Exploitable With

CANVAS (CANVAS)

Core Impact

Metasploit (Linux PolicyKit Race Condition Privilege Escalation)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-1485