Synopsis: Moderate: polkit security update
Advisory ID: SLSA-2016:0189-1
Issue Date: 2016-02-16
CVE Numbers: CVE-2015-3256
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A denial of service flaw was found in how polkit handled authorization
requests. A local, unprivileged user could send malicious requests to
polkit, which could then cause the polkit daemon to corrupt its memory and
crash. (CVE-2015-3256)
The system must be rebooted for this update to take effect.
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SL7
x86_64
polkit-0.112-6.el7_2.i686.rpm
polkit-0.112-6.el7_2.x86_64.rpm
polkit-debuginfo-0.112-6.el7_2.i686.rpm
polkit-debuginfo-0.112-6.el7_2.x86_64.rpm
polkit-devel-0.112-6.el7_2.i686.rpm
polkit-devel-0.112-6.el7_2.x86_64.rpm
noarch
polkit-docs-0.112-6.el7_2.noarch.rpm
– Scientific Linux Development Team
