PolicyKit is a toolkit for defining and handling authorizations. It is used for allowing unprivileged processes to speak to privileged processes.
PolicyKit is a toolkit for defining and handling authorizations. It is used for allowing unprivileged processes to speak to privileged processes.
| Website: | http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PolicyKit |
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| License: | LGPLv2+ |
| Vendor: | Baruwa Enterprise Edition https://packages.baruwa.com/ |
| Group: | system environment/libraries |
| polkit-0.96-11.el6_10.2.x86_64 [162 KiB] |
Changelog
by Jan Rybar (2022-01-13):
- pkexec: argv overflow results in local privilege esc. - Resolves: CVE-2021-4034 |
| polkit-0.96-11.el6_10.1.x86_64 [162 KiB] |
Changelog
by Jan Rybar (2019-01-24):
- Fix of CVE-2019-6133, PID reuse via slow fork - Resolves: rhbz#1667310 |