Mandriva Update for polkit MDVSA-2011:086 (polkit)

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Fedora Update for polkit FEDORA-2011-5676

Check for the Version of polkit OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for polkit FEDORA-2011-5676 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2011 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the term...

Command injection

usb-creator-helper in usb-creator before 0.2.28.3 does not enforce intended PolicyKit restrictions, which allows local users to perform arbitrary unmount operations via the UnmountFile method in a dbus-send command...

CVE-2011-1828

CVE-2011-1828 affects the usb-creator package (usb-creator-helper) prior to 0.2.28.3. The flaw stems from usb-creator not enforcing PolicyKit restrictions, enabling a local user to perform arbitrary unmount operations via the UnmountFile method in a dbus-send command. Impact is local privilege-re...

CVE-2011-1828

usb-creator-helper in usb-creator before 0.2.28.3 does not enforce intended PolicyKit restrictions, which allows local users to perform arbitrary unmount operations via the UnmountFile method in a dbus-send command...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-1117-1)

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Ubuntu Update for policykit-1 USN-1117-1

Ubuntu Update for Linux kernel vulnerabilities USN-1117-1 OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbubuntuUSN11171.nasl 7964 2017-12-01 07:32:11Z santu $ Ubuntu Update for policykit-1 USN-1117-1 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2011 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net...

[SECURITY] Fedora 14 Update: polkit-0.98-5.fc14

PolicyKit is a toolkit for defining and handling authorizations. It is used for allowing unprivileged processes to speak to privileged processes...

CVE-2011-1828

usb-creator-helper in usb-creator before 0.2.28.3 does not enforce intended PolicyKit restrictions, which allows local users to perform arbitrary unmount operations via the UnmountFile method in a dbus-send command...

Design/Logic Flaw

dbusbackend/ls-dbus-backend in the D-Bus backend in language-selector before 0.6.7 does not restrict access on the basis of a PolicyKit check result, which allows local users to modify the /etc/default/locale and /etc/environment files via a 1 SetSystemDefaultLangEnv or 2...

CVE-2011-0729

dbusbackend/ls-dbus-backend in the D-Bus backend in language-selector before 0.6.7 does not restrict access on the basis of a PolicyKit check result, which allows local users to modify the /etc/default/locale and /etc/environment files via a 1 SetSystemDefaultLangEnv or 2...

CVE-2011-0729

dbusbackend/ls-dbus-backend in the D-Bus backend in language-selector before 0.6.7 does not restrict access on the basis of a PolicyKit check result, which allows local users to modify the /etc/default/locale and /etc/environment files via a 1 SetSystemDefaultLangEnv or 2...

[SECURITY] Fedora 15 Update: polkit-0.101-5.fc15

PolicyKit is a toolkit for defining and handling authorizations. It is used for allowing unprivileged processes to speak to privileged processes...

PolicyKit privilege escalation

privilege escalation via pkexec...

[USN-1117-1] PolicyKit vulnerability

========================================================================== Ubuntu Security Notice USN-1117-1 April 19, 2011 policykit-1 vulnerability ========================================================================== A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: -...

USN-1117-1: PolicyKit vulnerability

Neel Mehta discovered that PolicyKit did not correctly verify the user making authorization requests. A local attacker could exploit this to trick pkexec into running applications with root privileges...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: polkit security update

Updated polkit packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is...

CVE-2011-0729

dbusbackend/ls-dbus-backend in the D-Bus backend in language-selector before 0.6.7 does not restrict access on the basis of a PolicyKit check result, which allows local users to modify the /etc/default/locale and /etc/environment files via a 1 SetSystemDefaultLangEnv or 2...

CVE-2011-1485

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...

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...