[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#476616: policykit: CVE-2008-1658 format string vulnerability

[Nico Golde]

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

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