[SECURITY] Fedora 14 Update: polkit-0.98-5.fc14

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2011-5676
2011-04-20 18:59:48
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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.

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ChangeLog:

* Tue Apr 19 2011 David Zeuthen <davidz at redhat.com> - 0.98-5
- CVE-2011-1485 (#697951)
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #692922 - CVE-2011-1485 polkitd/pkexec vulnerability
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=692922
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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/.

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