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