ELSA-2011-0455 Important: Oracle Linux polkit security update
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(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
05/31/2011
07/25/2018
12/20/2011
07/04/2017
Description
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.
Solution(s)
- oracle-linux-upgrade-polkit
- oracle-linux-upgrade-polkit-desktop-policy
- oracle-linux-upgrade-polkit-devel
- oracle-linux-upgrade-polkit-docs
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