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PolicyKit: local privilege escalation

Package(s): polkit policykit CVE #(s): CVE-2011-1485

Created: April 20, 2011 Updated: April 18, 2012

Description: The pbexec utility can be exploited by a local user to run arbitrary commands as root.

Alerts:

Debian	DSA-2319-1	2011-10-08
openSUSE	openSUSE-SU-2011:0413-1	2011-04-29
Slackware	SSA:2011-109-01	2011-04-20
Ubuntu	USN-1117-1	2011-04-19
Red Hat	RHSA-2011:0455-01	2011-04-19
Fedora	FEDORA-2011-5676	2011-04-20
SUSE	SUSE-SR:2011:008	2011-05-03
Mandriva	MDVSA-2011:086	2011-05-16
openSUSE	openSUSE-SU-2011:0412-1	2011-04-29
Gentoo	201204-06	2012-04-17

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