Fedora alert FEDORA-2013-13616 (gksu-polkit)
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| Subject: | [SECURITY] Fedora 18 Update: gksu-polkit-0.0.3-8.gitf8ce834c.fc18 | |
| Date: | Sun, 04 Aug 2013 00:08:08 +0000 | |
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2013-13616 2013-07-25 22:55:49 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : gksu-polkit Product : Fedora 18 Version : 0.0.3 Release : 8.gitf8ce834c.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: * Recreate tarball from proper sources; previous package was shipping an unknown code tarball. * Add proper patching for CVE-2012-5617/CVE-2013-4161, the previous fix was creating a patch file and not patching the code. * Use proper bus name in service file to fix service timeout. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Sun Jul 21 2013 Simone Caronni <negativo17@gmail.com> - 0.0.3-8.gitf8ce834c - Update to git snapshot, add script to recreate tarball. - Fix Patch1, was creating a patch file and not patching files. - Add fix to service file from Jan Pokorný (#975541). * Tue Jun 11 2013 Simone Caronni <negativo17@gmail.com> - 0.0.3-7 - Fix systemd service file (#948613). - SPEC file formatting. * 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 #987561 - CVE-2013-4161 gksu-polkit: improper patching of CVE-2012-5617 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=987561 [ 2 ] 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-...