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policykit-1: privilege escalation

policykit-1: privilege escalation

Posted Sep 26, 2013 1:21 UTC (Thu) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389)
Parent article: policykit-1: privilege escalation

Was the pile of polkit-related issues in the list related to copy/pasted code? Has documentation been updated for how not to use it?


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policykit-1: privilege escalation

Posted Sep 27, 2013 17:59 UTC (Fri) by BenHutchings (subscriber, #37955) [Link]

No, polkit provided a function that scores -10, as explained in the original advisory. The other packages need to be updated to use the new working function.

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