-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2018-fef8a691a6 2018-07-13 17:31:30.787383 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : polkit Product : Fedora 28 Version : 0.115 Release : 1.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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Security fix for CVE-2018-1116. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog:
* Tue Jul 10 2018 Miloslav Trma�� mitr@redhat.com - 0.115-1 - Update to 0.115 (CVE-2018-1116) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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