MDVSA-2011:086 -- Mandriva polkitID: oval:org.secpod.oval:def:301014 | Date: (C)2012-01-07 (M)2021-09-30 |
Class: PATCH | Family: unix |
A vulnerability has been found and corrected in polkit: 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 . The updated packages have been patched to correct this issue.
Platform: |
Mandriva Linux 2010.1 |