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