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