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CVE Reference: CVE-2011-4945 |
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Original Page at CVE MITRE: CVE-2011-4945 |
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Description: PolicyKit 0.103 sets the AdminIdentities to "wheel" by default, which allows local users in the wheel group to gain root privileges without authentication. |
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CVE Status: Candidate |
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References: SAID Secunia Advisory: SA48817 MLIST http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/28/2 http://www.mail-archive.com/polkit-devel@lists.freedesktop.org/msg00327.html http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/28/1 MISC GENTOO http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201204-06.xml CONFIRM http://patch-tracker.debian.org/patch/series/view/policykit-1/0.104-2/05_revert-admin-identities-unix-group-wheel.patch http://cgit.freedesktop.org/PolicyKit/commit/?id=763faf434b445c20ae9529100d3ef5290976d0c9 |
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