[SECURITY] Fedora 8 Update: PolicyKit-0.6-2.fc8

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2008-2987
2008-04-08 23:45:52
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Name        : PolicyKit
Product     : Fedora 8
Version     : 0.6
Release     : 2.fc8
URL         : http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=PolicyKit.git;a=summary
Summary     : Toolkit for privilege control
Description :
PolicyKit is a toolkit for defining and handling the policy that
allows unprivileged processes to speak to privileged processes.

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Update Information:

CVE-2008-1658: PolicyKit: format string vulnerability
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ChangeLog:

* Fri Apr  4 2008 David Zeuthen <davidz at redhat.com> - 0.6-2.fc8
- Include fix for CVE-2008-1658 (#439995)
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #439982 - CVE-2008-1658 PolicyKit: format string vulnerability
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=439982
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update PolicyKit' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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