Synopsis: Moderate: polkit security update Advisory ID: SLSA-2016:0189-1 Issue Date: 2016-02-16 CVE Numbers: CVE-2015-3256 -- 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. -- 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