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A polkit security update has been released for Fedora 37.



SECURITY: Fedora 37 Update: polkit-121-4.fc37.2


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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2023-4936e4e7f1
2023-04-13 01:53:04.374252
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Name : polkit
Product : Fedora 37
Version : 121
Release : 4.fc37.2
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:

config file permission change to increase security of polkitd
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ChangeLog:

* Tue Apr 11 2023 Jan Rybar - 122-3.2
- revert config file location
* Thu Mar 30 2023 Jan Rybar - 122-3.1
- config file permission change to increase security of polkitd
- Resolves: bz#2182784
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References:

[ 1 ] Bug #2182784 - polkit: Privilege escalation from polkitd user
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2182784
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2023-4936e4e7f1' at the command
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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