Scientific Linux: SLSA-2016:0190-1 Moderate: NetworkManager Security Flaw

Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2016 16:30:23 +0000
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Sender: Security Errata for Scientific Linux
 
From: Pat Riehecky 
Subject: Security ERRATA Moderate: polkit on SL7.x x86_64
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Synopsis: Moderate: polkit security update
Advisory ID: SLSA-2016:0189-1
Issue Date: 2016-02-16
CVE Numbers: CVE-2015-3256
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A denial of service flaw was found in how polkit handled authorization
requests. A local, unprivileged user could send malicious requests to
polkit, which could then cause the polkit daemon to corrupt its memory and
crash. (CVE-2015-3256)

The system must be rebooted for this update to take effect.
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SL7
 x86_64
 polkit-0.112-6.el7_2.i686.rpm
 polkit-0.112-6.el7_2.x86_64.rpm
 polkit-debuginfo-0.112-6.el7_2.i686.rpm
 polkit-debuginfo-0.112-6.el7_2.x86_64.rpm
 polkit-devel-0.112-6.el7_2.i686.rpm
 polkit-devel-0.112-6.el7_2.x86_64.rpm
 noarch
 polkit-docs-0.112-6.el7_2.noarch.rpm

- Scientific Linux Development Team