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Fedora alert FEDORA-2013-17197 (polkit)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2013-17197 2013-09-20 02:24:58 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : polkit Product : Fedora 18 Version : 0.107 Release : 6.fc18 URL : http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/polkit Summary : polkit Authorization Framework Description : polkit is a toolkit for defining and handling authorizations. It is used for allowing unprivileged processes to speak to privileged processes. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: This release fixes CVE-2013-4288: Race condition with process subjects that do not have securely determined uid. pkcheck(1) now supports a new format for the --process argument; all applications need to use the new format to avoid a race condition (or use --system-bus-name to identify the process instead). Similarly, applications using the API should always use polkit_unix_process_new_for_owner(). polkit_unix_process_new() and polkit_unix_process_new_full() are unsafe and have been deprecated. Thanks to Sebastian Krahmer of the SUSE Security Team for reporting this issue. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Wed Sep 18 2013 Miloslav Trmač <mitr@redhat.com> - 0.107-6 - Allow specifying an UID in the --process option of pkcheck(1) Resolves: #1009538, CVE-2013-4288 * Wed May 29 2013 Tomas Bzatek <tbzatek@redhat.com> 0.107-5 - Fix a race on PolkitSubject type registration (#866718) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #1002375 - CVE-2013-4288 polkit: unix-process subject for authorization is racy https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1002375 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update polkit' 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 https://fedoraproject.org/keys -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ package-announce mailing list package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/package-... (Log in to post comments)
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