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A polkit security update has been released for Fedora 38.



SECURITY: Fedora 38 Update: polkit-122-3.fc38.1


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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2023-41bdb7dba8
2023-04-17 01:21:13.055008
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Name : polkit
Product : Fedora 38
Version : 122
Release : 3.fc38.1
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:

* 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-2023-41bdb7dba8' 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

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
  https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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