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...

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...