Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-2319-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the Debian SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2011 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...

Debian Security Advisory DSA 2319-1 (policykit-1)

The remote host is missing an update to policykit-1 announced via advisory DSA 2319-1. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: deb23191.nasl 6613 2017-07-07 12:08:40Z cfischer $ Description: Auto-generated from advisory DSA 2319-1 policykit-1 Authors: Thomas Reinke Copyright: Copyright c 2011 E-Soft Inc...

Debian DSA-2319-1 : policykit-1 - race condition

Neel Mehta discovered that a race condition in Policykit, a framework for managing administrative policies and privileges, allowed local users to elevate privileges by executing a setuid program from pkexec. The oldstable distribution lenny does not contain the policykit-1 package. %NASLMINLEVEL...