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CVE-2011-1485

CVE-2011-1485

EPSS 5.2%
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.
Affected products
n/a · n/a
public PoCs found — 4
githubgithub.com/Pashkela/CVE-2011-1485★ 0exploitdbwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/35021unverifiedexploitdbwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/17942unverifiedexploitdbwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/17932unverified
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References
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058752.htmlhttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-May/059859.htmlhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=692922http://secunia.com/advisories/48817http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201204-06.xmlhttp://securityreason.com/securityalert/8424http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2319http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:086http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0455.htmlhttp://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1117-1