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CVE-2011-4945

CVE-2011-4945

EPSS 0.4%
PolicyKit 0.103 sets the AdminIdentities to "wheel" by default, which allows local users in the wheel group to gain root privileges without authentication.
Affected products
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References
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/PolicyKit/commit/?id=763faf434b445c20ae9529100d3ef5290976d0c9http://patch-tracker.debian.org/patch/series/view/policykit-1/0.104-2/05_revert-admin-identities-unix-group-wheel.patchhttps://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=401513http://secunia.com/advisories/48817http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201204-06.xmlhttps://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/policykit-1/0.103-1http://www.mail-archive.com/polkit-devel%40lists.freedesktop.org/msg00327.htmlhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/28/1http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/28/2