Linux PolicyKit Race Condition Privilege Escalation Exploit

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. Those vulnerable include RHEL6 prior to...

qemu-kvm security and bug fix update

1.5.3-60.el70.2 - kvm-pc-add-hotaddcpu-callback-to-all-machine-types.patch bz1094820 - Resolves: bz1094820 Hot plug CPU not working with RHEL6 machine types running on RHEL7 host. 1.5.3-60.el70.1 - kvm-iscsi-fix-indentation.patch bz1090978 - kvm-iscsi-correctly-propagate-errors-in-iscsiopen.patch...

SuSE 10 Security Update : pcp (ZYPP Patch Number 8421)

pcp was updated to version 3.6.10 which fixes security issues and also brings a lot of new features. - Update to pcp-3.6.10. o Transition daemons to run under an unprivileged account. o Fixes for security advisory CVE-2012-5530: tmpfile flaws; bnc782967. o Fix pcp1 command short-form pmlogger...

Linux PolicyKit Race Condition Privilege Escalation

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. Those vulnerable include RHEL6 prior to...