openSUSE Security Update: polkit: fixing stat race condition (CVE-2011-1485) ______________________________________________________________________________ Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2011:0413-1 Rating: moderate References: #638784 #688788 Cross-References: CVE-2011-1485 Affected Products: openSUSE 11.4 ______________________________________________________________________________ An update that solves one vulnerability and has one errata is now available. Description: A race condition exists in pkexec while trying to determine its caller which could lead to privilege escalation. CVE-2011-1485 has been assigned to this issue. Patch Instructions: To install this openSUSE Security Update use YaST online_update. Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product: - openSUSE 11.4: zypper in -t patch libpolkit0-4439 To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch". Package List: - openSUSE 11.4 (i586 x86_64): libpolkit0-0.99-5.6.1 polkit-0.99-5.6.1 polkit-devel-0.99-5.6.1 - openSUSE 11.4 (x86_64): libpolkit0-32bit-0.99-5.6.1 - openSUSE 11.4 (noarch): polkit-doc-0.99-5.6.1 References: http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-1485.html https://bugzilla.novell.com/638784 https://bugzilla.novell.com/688788