Slackware 14.2: 2021-158-02 Moderate: Local Privilege Escalation in Polkit
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June 7, 2021
New polkit packages are available for Slackware 14.2 and -current to fix a security issue
Summary
Here are the details from the Slackware 14.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/polkit-0.113-i586-3_slack14.2.txz: Rebuilt. This update includes a mitigation for local privilege escalation using polkit_system_bus_name_get_creds_sync(). For more information, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-3560 (* Security fix *)
Where Find New Packages
Thanks to the friendly folks at the OSU Open Source Lab
(https://osuosl.org/) for donating FTP and rsync hosting
to the Slackware project! :-)
Also see the "Get Slack" section on http://www.slackware.com/ for
additional mirror sites near you.
Updated package for Slackware 14.2:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 14.2:
Updated package for Slackware -current:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 -current:
MD5 Signatures
Slackware 14.2 package:
d0a4fd417b76e84c8d9cd6ebe114e647 polkit-0.113-i586-3_slack14.2.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.2 package:
d7772cbf234dc38e87298cbaa37ba80e polkit-0.113-x86_64-3_slack14.2.txz
Slackware -current package:
64fec13a890084fb063867ddca80cc3f l/polkit-0.119-i586-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package:
69e81fef9df950635769876e703ed639 l/polkit-0.119-x86_64-1.txz
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Installation Instructions
Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg polkit-0.113-i586-3_slack14.2.txz
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