[SECURITY] Fedora 35 Update: polkit-0.120-1.fc35.2
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2022-353b7254fd
2022-02-19 01:30:44.345783
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Name : polkit
Product : Fedora 35
Version : 0.120
Release : 1.fc35.2
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-2021-4115
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ChangeLog:
* Wed Feb 16 2022 Jan Rybar <jrybar(a)redhat.com> - 0.120-1.2
- file descriptor exhaustion (GHSL-2021-077)
- Resolves: CVE-2021-4115
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #2007534 - CVE-2021-4115 polkit: file descriptor leak allows an unprivileged
user to cause a crash
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2007534
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http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label
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