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gksu-polkit: privilege escalation

Package(s):

gksu-polkit

CVE #(s):

CVE-2013-4161

Created:

August 5, 2013

Updated:

August 7, 2013

Description:

From the Red Hat bugzilla:

It was found that the patch to correct CVE-2012-5617 (bug #883162) was improperly applied, so the vulnerability described by CVE-2012-5617 was never really fixed.

Alerts:

Fedora	FEDORA-2013-13620	2013-08-04
Fedora	FEDORA-2013-13616	2013-08-04

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