[SECURITY] Fedora 18 Update: gnome-system-log-3.6.1-2.fc18

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-18579
2012-11-20 06:53:21
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Name        : gnome-system-log
Product     : Fedora 18
Version     : 3.6.1
Release     : 2.fc18
URL         : http://www.gnome.org
Summary     : A log file viewer for GNOME
Description :
gnome-system-log lets you view various log files on your system.

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Update Information:

This update changes gnome-system-log to use a stricter polkit policy when running with elevated privileges. Previously, it would only ask for the user's own password; now it requires anadministrator password.

This problem has been reported as CVE-2012-5535 
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #878115 - CVE-2012-5535 gnome-system-log: polkit policy too lax, allows reading arbitrary files on the system
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=878115
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update gnome-system-log' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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