polkit (SSA:2011-109-01)
Posted on: 04/20/2011 08:58 AM
New polkit packages are available for Slackware 13.1 and -current to fix a security issue.
Here are the details from the Slackware 13.1 ChangeLog: +--------------------------+ patches/packages/polkit-1_14bdfd8-i486-2_slack13.1.txz: Rebuilt. Patched to fix a race condition that could allow a local user to execute arbitrary code as root. Thanks to Neel Mehta of Google. For more information, see: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2011-1485 (* Security fix *) +--------------------------+
Where to find the new packages: +-----------------------------+
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