Fedora 21 Update: polkit-0.112-7.fc21.1

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2015-1297
2015-01-27 23:29:20
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Name        : polkit
Product     : Fedora 21
Version     : 0.112
Release     : 7.fc21.1
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:

Backport upstream commit for possible memory leak.
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ChangeLog:

* Tue Jan 27 2015 Rex Dieter <rdieter at fedoraproject.org> 0.112-7.1
- polkit doesn't release reference counters of GVariant data (#1180886)
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #1180886 - polkit doesn't release reference counters of GVariant data for org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.Authority.EnumerateActions dbus call.
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1180886
  [ 2 ] Bug #871761 - The kded4 binary slowly grows without limit
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=871761
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