Test ID:	1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.831390
Category:	Mandrake Local Security Checks
Title:	Mandriva Update for polkit MDVSA-2011:086 (polkit)
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: 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 Software/OS: polkit on Mandriva Linux 2010.1, Mandriva Linux 2010.1/X86_64 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
Copyright	Copyright (C) 2011 Greenbone AG

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