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FKIE_CVE-2011-1485

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2011-05-31 20:55 - Updated: 2026-06-16 23:29
Severity
Summary
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.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058752.htmlPatch
secalert@redhat.comhttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-May/059859.htmlPatch
secalert@redhat.comhttp://secunia.com/advisories/48817
secalert@redhat.comhttp://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201204-06.xml
secalert@redhat.comhttp://securityreason.com/securityalert/8424
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2319
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:086
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0455.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1117-1
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=692922Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058752.htmlPatch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-May/059859.htmlPatch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://secunia.com/advisories/48817
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201204-06.xml
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8424
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2319
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:086
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0455.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1117-1
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=692922Patch
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
redhat policykit 0.96

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  "lastModified": "2026-06-16T23:29:28.470",
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