USN-1956-1: HPLIP vulnerability

It was discovered that HPLIP was using polkit in an unsafe manner. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to bypass intended polkit authorizations...

USN-1955-1: apt-xapian-index vulnerability

It was discovered that apt-xapian-index was using polkit in an unsafe manner. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to bypass intended polkit authorizations...

USN-1954-1: libvirt vulnerabilities

It was discovered that libvirt used the pkcheck tool in an unsafe manner. A local attacker could possibly use this flaw to bypass polkit authentication. In Ubuntu, libvirt polkit authentication is not enabled by default. CVE-2013-4311 It was discovered that libvirt incorrectly handled certain...

USN-1953-1: polkit vulnerability

It was discovered that polkit didn't allow applications to use the pkcheck tool in a way which prevented a race condition in the UID lookup. A local attacker could use this flaw to possibly escalate privileges...

CVE-2013-1061

dbus/SoftwarePropertiesDBus.py in Software Properties 0.92.17 before 0.92.17.3, 0.92.9 before 0.92.9.3, and 0.82.7 before 0.82.7.5 does not properly use D-Bus for communication with a polkit authority, which allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions by leveraging a PolkitUnixProce...

CVE-2013-1064

apt-xapian-index before 0.45ubuntu2.1, 0.44ubuntu7.1, and 0.44ubuntu5.1 does not properly use D-Bus for communication with a polkit authority, which allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions by leveraging a PolkitUnixProcess PolkitSubject race condition via a 1 setuid process or 2...

CVE-2013-4326

RealtimeKit aka rtkit 0.5 does not properly use D-Bus for communication with a polkit authority, which allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions by leveraging a PolkitUnixProcess PolkitSubject race condition via a 1 setuid process or 2 pkexec process, a related issue to...

CVE-2013-4327

systemd does not properly use D-Bus for communication with a polkit authority, which allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions by leveraging a PolkitUnixProcess PolkitSubject race condition via a 1 setuid process or 2 pkexec process, a related issue to CVE-2013-4288...

CVE-2013-1063

usb-creator 0.2.47 before 0.2.47.1, 0.2.40 before 0.2.40ubuntu2, and 0.2.38 before 0.2.38.2 does not properly use D-Bus for communication with a polkit authority, which allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions by leveraging a PolkitUnixProcess PolkitSubject race condition via a 1...

Fedora Update for gksu-polkit FEDORA-2013-13620

Check for the Version of gksu-polkit OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for gksu-polkit FEDORA-2013-13620 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2013 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it und...

Fedora Update for gksu-polkit FEDORA-2013-13620

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2013 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Fedora Update for gksu-polkit FEDORA-2013-13616

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2013 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Fedora Update for gksu-polkit FEDORA-2013-13616

Check for the Version of gksu-polkit OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for gksu-polkit FEDORA-2013-13616 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2013 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it und...

Fedora 18 : gksu-polkit-0.0.3-8.gitf8ce834c.fc18 (2013-13616)

Recreate tarball from proper sources; previous package was shipping an unknown code tarball. - Add proper patching for CVE-2012-5617/CVE-2013-4161, the previous fix was creating a patch file and not patching the code. - Use proper bus name in service file to fix service timeout. Note that Tenable...

Fedora 19 : gksu-polkit-0.0.3-8.gitf8ce834c.fc19 (2013-13620)

Recreate tarball from proper sources; previous package was shipping an unknown code tarball. - Add proper patching for CVE-2012-5617/CVE-2013-4161, the previous fix was creating a patch file and not patching the code. - Use proper bus name in service file to fix service timeout. Note that Tenable...

[SECURITY] Fedora 18 Update: gksu-polkit-0.0.3-8.gitf8ce834c.fc18

This is a library and application used to ask the user for passwords to run programs as root...

[SECURITY] Fedora 19 Update: gksu-polkit-0.0.3-8.gitf8ce834c.fc19

This is a library and application used to ask the user for passwords to run programs as root...

Oracle Linux 6 : polkit (ELSA-2011-0455)

The remote Oracle Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2011-0455 advisory. - Include fixes for CVE-2011-1485 Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux security advisory. Note that Nessus has n...

Fedora Update for gksu-polkit FEDORA-2013-3032

Check for the Version of gksu-polkit OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for gksu-polkit FEDORA-2013-3032 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2013 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it unde...

Fedora Update for gksu-polkit FEDORA-2013-3032

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2013 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription scriptxrefname:"URL",...