CVE-2011-1485

N/A

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.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 ScoreN/A

Published5/31/2011

Last Modified4/29/2026

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Affected Products

redhat:policykit

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-362

References

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058752.html(secalert@redhat.com)

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-May/059859.html(secalert@redhat.com)

http://secunia.com/advisories/48817(secalert@redhat.com)

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201204-06.xml(secalert@redhat.com)

http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8424(secalert@redhat.com)

http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2319(secalert@redhat.com)

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:086(secalert@redhat.com)

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0455.html(secalert@redhat.com)

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1117-1(secalert@redhat.com)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=692922(secalert@redhat.com)

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058752.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-May/059859.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://secunia.com/advisories/48817(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201204-06.xml(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8424(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2319(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:086(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0455.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1117-1(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=692922(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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