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Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2011 13:12:30 -0400 (EDT)
From: Josh Bressers <bressers@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: coley <coley@...re.org>
Subject: consolekit security flaw heads up

I've assigned this CVE-2010-4664.

It's not terribly serious. The short story is that local users have some
special treatment with consolekit, and it's easy to become a "local user".

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=585952
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=600455
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28377

The upstream bug has a patch.

Thanks.

-- 
    JB

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