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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:
Oracle ELSA-2013-1270 polkit 2013-09-19
Gentoo 201204-06 polkit 2012-04-17
Debian DSA-2319-1 policykit-1 2011-10-08
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2011:0413-1 polkit 2011-04-29
Slackware SSA:2011-109-01 polkit 2011-04-20
Ubuntu USN-1117-1 policykit-1 2011-04-19
Red Hat RHSA-2011:0455-01 polkit 2011-04-19
Fedora FEDORA-2011-5676 polkit 2011-04-20
SUSE SUSE-SR:2011:008 java-1_6_0-ibm, java-1_5_0-ibm, java-1_4_2-ibm, postfix, dhcp6, dhcpcd, mono-addon-bytefx-data-mysql/bytefx-data-mysql, dbus-1, libtiff/libtiff-devel, cifs-mount/libnetapi-devel, rubygem-sqlite3, gnutls, libpolkit0, udisks 2011-05-03
Mandriva MDVSA-2011:086 polkit 2011-05-16
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2011:0412-1 polkit 2011-04-29

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