Summary
Ubuntu Update for Linux kernel vulnerabilities USN-1117-1
Solution
Please Install the Updated Packages.
Insight
Neel Mehta discovered that PolicyKit did not correctly verify the user making authorization requests. A local attacker could exploit this to trick pkexec into running applications with root privileges.
Affected
policykit-1 on Ubuntu 10.10 ,
Ubuntu 10.04 LTS ,
Ubuntu 9.10
References
Updated on 2015-03-25
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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