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Fedora 37: 2023-4936e4e7f1 Moderate: Polkit Permission Change

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Calendar Grey April 13, 2023
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Modifying configuration file permissions improves the security of polkitd in Fedora 37. Ensure you update promptly to mitigate this vital concern.
config file permission change to increase security of polkitd

Summary

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

used for allowing unprivileged processes to speak to privileged

processes.

config file permission change to increase security of polkitd

* Tue Apr 11 2023 Jan Rybar - 122-3.2

- revert config file location

* Thu Mar 30 2023 Jan Rybar - 122-3.1

- config file permission change to increase security of polkitd

- Resolves: bz#2182784

[ 1 ] Bug #2182784 - polkit: Privilege escalation from polkitd user

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2182784

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2023-4936e4e7f1' 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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Update Instructions

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Product: Fedora 37
Version: 121
Release: 4.fc37.2
Summary: An authorization framework

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