Fedora 29: Fix for CVE-2018-19788 Moderate Privilege Escalation

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

used for allowing unprivileged processes to speak to privileged

processes.

Fix of CVE-2018-19788, priv escalation with high UIDs

* Fri Dec 7 2018 Jan Rybar - 0.115-4.1

- Fix of CVE-2018-19788, priv escalation with high UIDs

- Resolves: rhbz#1655926

* Thu Sep 27 2018 Owen Taylor - 0.115-4

- Fix installation with prefix != /usr

* Fri Jul 20 2018 Jan Rybar - 0.115-3

- Warning raised by polkit when disconnected from ssh

- polkitagentlistener: resource leak - pointer to 'server'

- Error message raised on every 'systemctl start' in emergency.target

[ 1 ] Bug #1655926 - CVE-2018-19788 polkit: Improper handling of user with uid > INT_MAX leading to authentication bypass [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1655926

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2018-2f8696869e' at the command

line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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