[SECURITY] Fedora 33 Update: polkit-0.117-2.fc33.1
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2021-3f8d6016c9
2021-06-19 01:13:49.915655
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Name : polkit
Product : Fedora 33
Version : 0.117
Release : 2.fc33.1
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:
CVE-2021-3560 mitigation
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ChangeLog:
* Thu May 20 2021 Jan Rybar <jrybar(a)redhat.com> - 0.117-2.1
- CVE-2021-3560 mitigation
- Resolves: CVE-2021-3560
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #1961710 - CVE-2021-3560 polkit: local privilege escalation using
polkit_system_bus_name_get_creds_sync()
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1961710
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