[SECURITY] Fedora 18 Update: gksu-polkit-0.0.3-6.fc18

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2013-3032
2013-02-26 01:54:16
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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.

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Update Information:

gksu-polkit security update
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ChangeLog:

* Sun Feb 24 2013 Dan Mashal <dan.mashal at fedoraproject.org> - 0.0.3-6
- Add security patch as per RHBZ 886671
* Wed Feb 13 2013 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng at lists.fedoraproject.org> - 0.0.3-5
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_19_Mass_Rebuild
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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
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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/.

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