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Fedora 38 - FEDORA-2023-41bdb7dba8 Moderate: Polkit Permission Change

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Calendar Grey April 17, 2023
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Crucial Fedora patch for polkit enhances permissions to fortify security, addressing possible privilege escalation vulnerabilities.
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

* 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

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https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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References

Update Instructions

Product: Fedora 38
Version: 122
Release: 3.fc38.1
Summary: An authorization framework

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