Package: policykit Severity: grave Tags: security patch Hi, the following CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id was published for policykit.
CVE-2008-1658[0]: | Format string vulnerability in the grant helper | (polkit-grant-helper.c) in PolicyKit 0.7 and earlier allows attackers | to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary | code via format strings in a password. Patch: http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=PolicyKit.git;a=commitdiff;h=5bc86a14cc0e356bcf8b5f861674f842869b1be7 If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the CVE id in your changelog entry. For further information see: [0] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-1658 http://security-tracker.debian.net/tracker/CVE-2008-1658 -- Nico Golde - http://www.ngolde.de - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - GPG: 0x73647CFF For security reasons, all text in this mail is double-rot13 encrypted.
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