jockey vulnerability

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2013-1065  

Jockey could be tricked into bypassing polkit authorizations.

It was discovered that Jockey was using polkit in an unsafe manner. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to bypass intended polkit authorizations.

18 September 2013

jockey vulnerability

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

  • Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

Summary

Jockey could be tricked into bypassing polkit authorizations.

Software Description

  • jockey - user interface and desktop integration for driver management

Details

It was discovered that Jockey was using polkit in an unsafe manner. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to bypass intended polkit authorizations.

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
jockey-common - 0.9.7-0ubuntu7.11

To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.

After a standard system update you need to reboot your computer to make all the necessary changes.

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