A polkit security update has been released for Oracle Linux 8.

El-errata: ELSA-2022-0267 Important: Oracle Linux 8 polkit security update

Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2022-0267

  http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2022-0267.html

The following updated rpms for Oracle Linux 8 have been uploaded to the Unbreakable Linux Network:

x86_64:
polkit-0.115-13.0.1.el8_5.1.x86_64.rpm
polkit-devel-0.115-13.0.1.el8_5.1.i686.rpm
polkit-devel-0.115-13.0.1.el8_5.1.x86_64.rpm
polkit-docs-0.115-13.0.1.el8_5.1.noarch.rpm
polkit-libs-0.115-13.0.1.el8_5.1.i686.rpm
polkit-libs-0.115-13.0.1.el8_5.1.x86_64.rpm

aarch64:
polkit-0.115-13.0.1.el8_5.1.aarch64.rpm
polkit-devel-0.115-13.0.1.el8_5.1.aarch64.rpm
polkit-docs-0.115-13.0.1.el8_5.1.noarch.rpm
polkit-libs-0.115-13.0.1.el8_5.1.aarch64.rpm

SRPMS:
  http://oss.oracle.com/ol8/SRPMS-updates/polkit-0.115-13.0.1.el8_5.1.src.rpm

Related CVEs:

CVE-2021-4034



Description of changes:

[0.115-13.0.1]
- Increase timeout to avoid defunct processes [Orabug: 26930744]

[0.115-13.el8_5.1]
- pkexec: argv overflow results in local privilege esc.
- Resolves: CVE-2021-4034

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