[SECURITY] Fedora 28 Update: polkit-0.115-2.fc28
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2018-4ac3c68ee4
2018-12-11 01:56:16.221072
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Name : polkit
Product : Fedora 28
Version : 0.115
Release : 2.fc28
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:
Fix of CVE-2018-19788, priv escalation with high UIDs
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ChangeLog:
* Fri Dec 7 2018 Jan Rybar <jrybar(a)redhat.com> - 0.115-2
- Fix of CVE-2018-19788, priv escalation with high UIDs
- Resolves: rhbz#1655926
* Tue Jul 10 2018 Miloslav Trma�� <mitr(a)redhat.com> - 0.115-1
- Update to 0.115 (CVE-2018-1116)
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #1655926 - CVE-2018-19788 polkit: Improper handling of user with uid >
INT_MAX leading to authentication bypass [fedora-all]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1655926
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