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. For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 0.96-4+squeeze1. For the testing distribution (wheezy) and unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 0.101-4. We recommend that you upgrade your policykit-1 packages.
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.
For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 0.96-4+squeeze1.
For the testing distribution (wheezy) and unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 0.101-4.
We recommend that you upgrade your policykit-1 packages.
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