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Debian DSA-2319-1 : policykit-1 - race condition

medium Nessus Plugin ID 56414

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Neel Mehta discovered that a race condition in Policykit, a framework for managing administrative policies and privileges, allowed local users to elevate privileges by executing a setuid program from pkexec.

The oldstable distribution (lenny) does not contain the policykit-1 package.

Solution

Upgrade the policykit-1 packages.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 0.96-4+squeeze1.

See Also

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=644500

https://packages.debian.org/source/squeeze/policykit-1

https://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2319

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 56414

File Name: debian_DSA-2319.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/10/2011

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Critical

Score: 9.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.9

Temporal Score: 5.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:policykit-1, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/8/2011

Exploitable With

CANVAS (CANVAS)

Core Impact

Metasploit (Linux PolicyKit Race Condition Privilege Escalation)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-1485

BID: 47496

DSA: 2319