Test ID:	1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.870732
Category:	Red Hat Local Security Checks
Title:	RedHat Update for polkit RHSA-2011:0455-01
Summary:	The remote host is missing an update for the 'polkit'; package(s) announced via the referenced advisory.
Description:	Summary: The remote host is missing an update for the 'polkit' package(s) announced via the referenced advisory. Vulnerability Insight: PolicyKit is a toolkit for defining and handling authorizations. 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) Red Hat would like to thank Neel Mehta of Google for reporting this issue. All polkit users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to correct this issue. The system must be rebooted for this update to take effect. Affected Software/OS: polkit on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6), Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6), Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6) Solution: Please Install the Updated Packages. CVSS Score: 6.9 CVSS Vector: AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Cross-Ref:	Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2011-1485 48817 http://secunia.com/advisories/48817 8424 http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8424 DSA-2319 http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2319 FEDORA-2011-5589 http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058752.html FEDORA-2011-5676 http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-May/059859.html GLSA-201204-06 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201204-06.xml MDVSA-2011:086 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:086 RHSA-2011:0455 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0455.html USN-1117-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1117-1 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=692922
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