Fedora alert FEDORA-2008-2987 (PolicyKit)
| From: | updates@fedoraproject.org | |
| To: | fedora-package-announce@redhat.com | |
| Subject: | [SECURITY] Fedora 8 Update: PolicyKit-0.6-2.fc8 | |
| Date: | Wed, 09 Apr 2008 05:20:37 +0000 | |
| Message-ID: | <200804090529.m395SvYF000581@bastion.fedora.phx.redhat.com> |
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2008-2987 2008-04-08 23:45:52 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: CVE-2008-1658: PolicyKit: format string vulnerability -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Fri Apr 4 2008 David Zeuthen <davidz@redhat.com> - 0.6-2.fc8 - Include fix for CVE-2008-1658 (#439995) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #439982 - CVE-2008-1658 PolicyKit: format string vulnerability https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=439982 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Fedora-package-announce mailing list Fedora-package-announce@redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-ann...