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| [SECURITY] Fedora 8 Update: PolicyKit-0.6-2.fc8 |
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| Wed, 09 Apr 2008 05:20:37 +0000 |
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2008-2987
2008-04-08 23:45:52
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Name : PolicyKit
Product : Fedora 8
Version : 0.6
Release : 2.fc8
URL : http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=PolicyKit.git;a=summary
Summary : Toolkit for privilege control
Description :
PolicyKit is a toolkit for defining and handling the policy that
allows unprivileged processes to speak to privileged processes.
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Update Information:
CVE-2008-1658: PolicyKit: format string vulnerability
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ChangeLog:
* Fri Apr 4 2008 David Zeuthen <davidz@redhat.com> - 0.6-2.fc8
- Include fix for CVE-2008-1658 (#439995)
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #439982 - CVE-2008-1658 PolicyKit: format string vulnerability
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=439982
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use
su -c 'yum update PolicyKit' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
http://fedoraproject.org/keys
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