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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2018-2f8696869e
2018-12-10 02:31:09.366320
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Name        : polkit
Product     : Fedora 29
Version     : 0.115
Release     : 4.1.fc29
URL         : http://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:

Fix of CVE-2018-19788, priv escalation with high UIDs
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ChangeLog:

* Fri Dec  7 2018 Jan Rybar <jrybar@redhat.com> - 0.115-4.1
- Fix of CVE-2018-19788, priv escalation with high UIDs
- Resolves: rhbz#1655926
* Thu Sep 27 2018 Owen Taylor <otaylor@redhat.com> - 0.115-4
- Fix installation with prefix != /usr
* Fri Jul 20 2018 Jan Rybar <jrybar@redhat.com> - 0.115-3
- Warning raised by polkit when disconnected from ssh
- polkitagentlistener: resource leak - pointer to 'server'
- Error message raised on every 'systemctl start' in emergency.target
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #1655926 - CVE-2018-19788 polkit: Improper handling of user with
 uid > INT_MAX leading to authentication bypass [fedora-all]
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1655926
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
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line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at
http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label

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