Fedora 35: 2022-353b7254fd Critical: Polkit File Leak Crash Fix

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-2021-4115

* Wed Feb 16 2022 Jan Rybar - 0.120-1.2

- file descriptor exhaustion (GHSL-2021-077)

- Resolves: CVE-2021-4115

[ 1 ] Bug #2007534 - CVE-2021-4115 polkit: file descriptor leak allows an unprivileged user to cause a crash

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2007534

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2022-353b7254fd' 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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