gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-201204-06.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201204-06">
  <title>PolicyKit: Multiple vulnerabilities</title>
  <synopsis>Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in PolicyKit, the worst of
    which may allow a local attacker to gain root privileges.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">polkit</product>
  <announced>April 17, 2012</announced>
  <revised>April 17, 2012: 1</revised>
  <bug>314535</bug>
  <bug>364973</bug>
  <bug>401513</bug>
  <access>local</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="sys-auth/polkit" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">0.104-r1</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">0.104-r1</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>PolicyKit is a toolkit for controlling privileges for system-wide
      services.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in PolicyKit:</p>
    
    <ul>
      <li>Error messages in the pkexec utility disclose the existence of local
        files (CVE-2010-0750).
      </li>
      <li>The pkexec utility initially checks the effective user ID of its
        parent process for authorization, instead of checking the real user ID
        (CVE-2011-1485).
      </li>
      <li>Members of the "wheel" group are able to execute commands as an
        administrator without a password (CVE-2011-4945).
      </li>
    </ul>
  </description>
  <impact type="high">
    <p>A local attacker could gain elevated privileges or sensitive
      information.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>All PolicyKit users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=sys-auth/polkit-0.104-r1"
    </code>
    
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2010-0750">CVE-2010-0750</uri>
    <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-1485">CVE-2011-1485</uri>
    <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-4945">CVE-2011-4945</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata timestamp="Fri, 07 Oct 2011 23:37:57 +0000" tag="requester">
    underling
  </metadata>
  <metadata timestamp="Tue, 17 Apr 2012 22:43:48 +0000" tag="submitter">ackle</metadata>
</glsa>