Fedora 20 Update: polkit-0.112-7.fc20.1

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2015-1285
2015-01-27 23:28:50
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Name        : polkit
Product     : Fedora 20
Version     : 0.112
Release     : 7.fc20.1
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)
* Sun Aug 17 2014 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng at lists.fedoraproject.org> - 0.112-7
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_21_22_Mass_Rebuild
* Tue Jul 22 2014 Kalev Lember <kalevlember at gmail.com> - 0.112-6
- Rebuilt for gobject-introspection 1.41.4
* Sat Jun  7 2014 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng at lists.fedoraproject.org> - 0.112-5
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_21_Mass_Rebuild
* Thu Jun  5 2014 Kay Sievers <kay at redhat.com> - 0.112-4
- backport upstream D-Bus "user bus" changes
* Mon Feb 10 2014 Miloslav Trmač <mitr at redhat.com> - 0.112-3
- Fix a PolkitAgentSession race condition
  Resolves: #1063193
* Sat Dec  7 2013 Miloslav Trmač <mitr at redhat.com> - 0.112-2
- Workaround pam_systemd setting broken XDG_RUNTIME_DIR
  Resolves: #1033774
- Always use mozjs-17.0 even if js-devel is installed
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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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