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Fedora 22 FEDORA-2015-11058 Moderate: Polkit Authentication Fix

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Calendar Grey July 13, 2015
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A crucial security patch for Fedora 22 targeting authentication weaknesses in polkit. Discover further information inside!
Security fix for CVE-2015-3218, CVE-2015-3255, CVE-2015-3256, CVE-2015-4625

Summary

polkit is a toolkit for defining and handling authorizations. It is

used for allowing unprivileged processes to speak to privileged

processes.

Update Information:

Security fix for CVE-2015-3218, CVE-2015-3255, CVE-2015-3256, CVE-2015-4625

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate fedora issue authentication fix polkit

Change Log

* Thu Jul 2 2015 Miloslav Trmač - 0.113-1 - Update to polkit-0.113 (CVE-2015-3218, CVE-2015-3255, CVE-2015-3256, CVE-2015-4625) Resolves: #910262, #1175061, #1177930, #1194391, #1228739, #1233810 * Fri Jun 19 2015 Miloslav Trmač - 0.112-11 - Add BuildRequires: systemd so that %{_unitdir} is defined, to fix the build. * Thu Jun 18 2015 Fedora Release Engineering - 0.112-10 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_23_Mass_Rebuild

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1228738 - CVE-2015-3218 polkit: crash authentication_agent_new with invalid object path in RegisterAuthenticationAgent https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1228738 [ 2 ] Bug #1233808 - CVE-2015-4625 polkit: potential information disclosure vulnerability due to cookie counter wrapping https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1233808

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update polkit' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .

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Name: polkit
Product: Fedora 22
Version: 0.113
Release: 1.fc22
URL: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/polkit/polkit/
Summary: An authorization framework

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security advisory moderate fedora issue authentication fix polkit

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