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Security ERRATA Important: polkit on SL6.x i386/x86_64
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Troy Dawson <[log in to unmask]>
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Troy Dawson <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Wed, 20 Apr 2011 14:30:51 -0500
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Synopsis:	Important: polkit security update
Issue date:	2011-04-19
CVE Names:	CVE-2011-1485

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 system must be rebooted for this update to take effect.

SL 6.x

       SRPMS:
polkit-0.96-2.el6_0.1.src.rpm
       i386:
polkit-0.96-2.el6_0.1.i686.rpm
polkit-desktop-policy-0.96-2.el6_0.1.noarch.rpm
polkit-devel-0.96-2.el6_0.1.i686.rpm
polkit-docs-0.96-2.el6_0.1.i686.rpm
       x86_64:
polkit-0.96-2.el6_0.1.i686.rpm
polkit-0.96-2.el6_0.1.x86_64.rpm
polkit-desktop-policy-0.96-2.el6_0.1.noarch.rpm
polkit-devel-0.96-2.el6_0.1.i686.rpm
polkit-devel-0.96-2.el6_0.1.x86_64.rpm
polkit-docs-0.96-2.el6_0.1.x86_64.rpm

- Scientific Linux Development Team

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