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CVE-2011-1485 (GCVE-0-2011-1485)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2011-05-31 20:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 22:28
VLAI
Summary
Race condition in the pkexec utility and polkitd daemon in PolicyKit (aka polkit) 0.96 allows local users to gain privileges by executing a setuid program from pkexec, related to the use of the effective user ID instead of the real user ID.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=692922 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2319 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8424 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASON
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1117-1 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201204-06.xml vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
http://secunia.com/advisories/48817 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVA
Date Public
2011-04-19 00:00
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