[SECURITY] Fedora 27 Update: polkit-0.113-16.fc27
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2018-83df5dc658
2018-07-31 17:09:33.504426
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Name : polkit
Product : Fedora 27
Version : 0.113
Release : 16.fc27
URL : http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/polkit
Summary : An authorization framework
Description :
polkit 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:
Security fix for CVE-2018-1116.
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ChangeLog:
* Wed Jul 11 2018 Miloslav Trma�� <mitr(a)redhat.com> - 0.113-16
- Fix CVE-2018-1116
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #1595404 - CVE-2018-1116 polkit: Improper authorization in
polkit_backend_interactive_authority_check_authorization function in polkitd
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1595404
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