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Debian: DSA-5059-1 Moderate: PolicyKit Local Privilege Escalation Fix

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Calendar Grey January 25, 2022
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The FreeBSD project has published Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-22:03, fixing a flaw in the userland interface of the kernel that could lead to unauthorized access.
The Qualys Research Labs discovered a local privilege escalation in PolicyKit's pkexec
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Summary

Details can be found in the Qualys advisory at
https://www.qualys.com/2022/01/25/cve-2021-4034/pwnkit.txt

For the oldstable distribution (buster), this problem has been fixed
in version 0.105-25+deb10u1.

For the stable distribution (bullseye), this problem has been fixed in
version 0.105-31+deb11u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your policykit-1 packages.

For the detailed security status of policykit-1 please refer to its
security tracker page at:
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/policykit-1

Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://www.debian.org/security/



Package: policykit-1
CVE ID: CVE-2021-4034

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