Fedora alert FEDORA-2011-5676 (polkit)
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| Subject: | [SECURITY] Fedora 14 Update: polkit-0.98-5.fc14 | |
| Date: | Mon, 09 May 2011 20:57:51 +0000 | |
| Message-ID: | <20110509205751.44965110620@bastion02.phx2.fedoraproject.org> | |
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2011-5676 2011-04-20 18:59:48 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : polkit Product : Fedora 14 Version : 0.98 Release : 5.fc14 URL : http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PolicyKit Summary : PolicyKit Authorization Framework Description : PolicyKit is a toolkit for defining and handling authorizations. It is used for allowing unprivileged processes to speak to privileged processes. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Tue Apr 19 2011 David Zeuthen <davidz@redhat.com> - 0.98-5 - CVE-2011-1485 (#697951) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #692922 - CVE-2011-1485 polkitd/pkexec vulnerability https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=692922 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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-...