Fedora 17 Update: polkit-0.104-6.fc17

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-3442
2012-03-09 01:04:58
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Name        : polkit
Product     : Fedora 17
Version     : 0.104
Release     : 6.fc17
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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Update Information:

The libpolkit-agent-1.so library was leaking two file descriptors every time it was used to authenticate the user. See https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=671486 for more details.
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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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