Solution
Please Install the Updated Packages.
Insight
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
polkit on Mandriva Linux 2010.1,
Mandriva Linux 2010.1/X86_64
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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