USN-1960-1: Software Properties vulnerability

Releases

• Ubuntu 13.04
• Ubuntu 12.10
• Ubuntu 12.04

Packages

• software-properties - manage the repositories that you install software from

Details

It was discovered that Software Properties was using polkit in an unsafe
manner. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to bypass intended
polkit authorizations.

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 13.04

• software-properties-common - 0.92.17.3

Ubuntu 12.10

• software-properties-common - 0.92.9.3

Ubuntu 12.04

• software-properties-common - 0.82.7.5

After a standard system update you need to reboot your computer to make
all the necessary changes.

References

• CVE-2013-1061