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Secunia Advisory SA44980

SUSE update for ConsoleKit
Secunia Advisory SA44980
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Release Date 2011-06-16
   
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Criticality level Less criticalLess critical
Impact Privilege escalation
Where From remote
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Solution Status Vendor Patch
   
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Operating System
openSUSE 11.3
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 11
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CVE Reference(s) CVE-2010-4664 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
  

Description

SUSE has issued an update for ConsoleKit. This fixes a weakness, which can be exploited by malicious users to potentially gain escalated privileges.

The weakness is caused due to improper handling of the "is-local" property and may lead to additional privileges being granted to remote users.


Solution
Apply updated packages via the zypper package manager.

Provided and/or discovered by
Pierre Ossman within a Red Hat bug report.

Original Advisory
Red Hat Bug#585952:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=585952

openSUSE-SU-2011:0639-1:
https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/8782872

SUSE-SU-2011:0638-1:
https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/8782891

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