Test ID:	1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.69662
Category:	Mandrake Local Security Checks
Title:	Mandriva Security Advisory MDVSA-2011:086 (polkit)
Summary:	NOSUMMARY
Description:	Description: The remote host is missing an update to polkit announced via advisory MDVSA-2011:086. 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 (CVE-2011-1485). The updated packages have been patched to correct this issue. Affected: 2010.1 Solution: To upgrade automatically use MandrakeUpdate or urpmi. The verification of md5 checksums and GPG signatures is performed automatically for you. https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=MDVSA-2011:086 Risk factor : High CVSS Score: 6.9
Cross-Ref:	Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2011-1485 48817 http://secunia.com/advisories/48817 8424 http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8424 DSA-2319 http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2319 FEDORA-2011-5589 http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058752.html FEDORA-2011-5676 http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-May/059859.html GLSA-201204-06 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201204-06.xml MDVSA-2011:086 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:086 RHSA-2011:0455 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0455.html USN-1117-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1117-1 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=692922
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