Fedora alert FEDORA-2013-3032 (gksu-polkit)
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| Subject: | [SECURITY] Fedora 18 Update: gksu-polkit-0.0.3-6.fc18 | |
| Date: | Wed, 06 Mar 2013 23:00:37 +0000 | |
| Message-ID: | <20130306230035.4B8FA20A97@bastion01.phx2.fedoraproject.org> | |
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2013-3032 2013-02-26 01:54:16 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : gksu-polkit Product : Fedora 18 Version : 0.0.3 Release : 6.fc18 URL : http://live.gnome.org/gksu Summary : Command line utility to run programs as root Description : This is a library and application used to ask the user for passwords to run programs as root. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: gksu-polkit security update -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Sun Feb 24 2013 Dan Mashal <dan.mashal@fedoraproject.org> - 0.0.3-6 - Add security patch as per RHBZ 886671 * Wed Feb 13 2013 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 0.0.3-5 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_19_Mass_Rebuild -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #883162 - CVE-2012-5617 gksu-polkit: privilege escalation due to improper authentication settings in policykit configuration file https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=883162 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update gksu-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-...