Fedora 34 FEDORA-2022-1acf1bb522 Moderate Polkit Local Escalation

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

used for allowing unprivileged processes to speak to privileged

processes.

Security fix for CVE-2021-4034

* Tue Jan 25 2022 Jan Rybar - 0.117-3.2

- pkexec: argv overflow results in local privilege esc.

- Resolves: CVE-2021-4034

[ 1 ] Bug #2025869 - CVE-2021-4034 polkit: Local privilege escalation in pkexec due to incorrect handling of argument vector

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2025869

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