SUSE 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...

CVE-2015-3256

PolicyKit aka polkit before 0.113 allows local users to cause a denial of service memory corruption and polkitd daemon crash and possibly gain privileges via unspecified vectors, related to "javascript rule evaluation."...

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...

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

The remote host is missing an update for the 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 scriptxrefname:"URL",...