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TITLE:
Fedora update for PolicyKit

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA29755

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/29755/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Privilege escalation, DoS

WHERE:
Local system

OPERATING SYSTEM:
Fedora 8
http://secunia.com/product/16769/

DESCRIPTION:
Fedora has issued an update for PolicyKit. This fixes a
vulnerability, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to
cause a DoS (Denial of Service) or to bypass certain security
restrictions.

The vulnerability is caused due to a format string error within the
PolicyKit grant helper. This can be exploited to cause a crash or to
bypass authentication.

SOLUTION:
Apply updated packages via the yum utility ("yum update PolicyKit").

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported in a Ubuntu bug report.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-April/msg00176.html

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/policykit/+bug/205037

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