Summary
The remote host is missing an update to policykit-1 announced via advisory DSA 2319-1.
Solution
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%202319-1
Insight
Neel Mehta discovered that a race condition in Policykit, a framework for managing administrative policies and privileges, allowed local users to elevate privileges by executing a setuid program from pkexec.
The oldstable distribution (lenny) does not contain the policykit-1 package.
For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 0.96-4+squeeze1.
For the testing distribution (wheezy) and unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 0.101-4.
We recommend that you upgrade your policykit-1 packages.
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2011-1485 -
CVSS Base Score: 6.9
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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