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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2023-41bdb7dba8
2023-04-17 01:21:13.055008
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Name        : polkit
Product     : Fedora 38
Version     : 122
Release     : 3.fc38.1
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:

config file permission change to increase security of polkitd
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ChangeLog:

* Thu Mar 30 2023 Jan Rybar  - 122-3.1
- config file permission change to increase security of polkitd
- Resolves: bz#2182784
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #2182784 - polkit: Privilege escalation from polkitd user
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2182784
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2023-41bdb7dba8' at the command
line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at
https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label

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Fedora 38: polkit 2023-41bdb7dba8

April 17, 2023
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.

Update Information:

config file permission change to increase security of polkitd

Change Log

* Thu Mar 30 2023 Jan Rybar - 122-3.1 - config file permission change to increase security of polkitd - Resolves: bz#2182784

References

[ 1 ] Bug #2182784 - polkit: Privilege escalation from polkitd user https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2182784

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2023-41bdb7dba8' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label

Severity
Name : polkit
Product : Fedora 38
Version : 122
Release : 3.fc38.1
URL : https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/polkit
Summary : An authorization framework

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