Fedora 33: 2021-3f8d6016c9 Critical: Polkit Privilege Escalation

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

used for allowing unprivileged processes to speak to privileged

processes.

CVE-2021-3560 mitigation

* Thu May 20 2021 Jan Rybar - 0.117-2.1

- CVE-2021-3560 mitigation

- Resolves: CVE-2021-3560

[ 1 ] Bug #1961710 - CVE-2021-3560 polkit: local privilege escalation using polkit_system_bus_name_get_creds_sync()

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1961710

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2021-3f8d6016c9' 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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