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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2022-da040e6b94
2022-01-26 18:39:49.375628
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Name        : polkit
Product     : Fedora 35
Version     : 0.120
Release     : 1.fc35.1
URL         : https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/polkit
Summary     : An authorization framework
Description :
polkit is a toolkit for defining and handling authorizations.  It is
used for allowing unprivileged processes to speak to privileged
processes.

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Update Information:

pkexec: argv overflow results in local privilege esc.
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ChangeLog:

* Tue Jan 25 2022 Jan Rybar  - 0.120-1.1
- pkexec: argv overflow results in local privilege esc.
- Resolves: CVE-2021-4034
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #2045563 - CVE-2021-4034 polkit: Local privilege escalation in pkexec due to incorrect handling of argument vector [fedora-all]
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2045563
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