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@@ -9,24 +9,54 @@ some security review. Use at your own risk.
This is polkit 0.116.
Highlights:
- TODO
+ Fix of CVE-2018-19788, high UIDs caused overflow in polkit;
+ Fix of CVE-2019-6133, kernel vulnerability (Slowfork) allowed local privilege escalation.
Build requirements
glib, gobject, gio >= 2.32
- mozjs-52
+ mozjs-60
gobject-introspection >= 0.6.2 (optional)
pam (optional)
ConsoleKit OR systemd
-Changes since polkit 0.114:
+Changes since polkit 0.115:
- TODO
+ Kyle Walker:
+ Leaking zombie child processes
-Thanks to our contributors.
+ Jan Rybar:
+ Possible resource leak found by static analyzer
+ Output messages tuneup
+ Sanity fixes
+ pkttyagent tty echo disabled on SIGINT
-Colin Walters and Miloslav Trmač,
-$DATE
+ Ray Strode:
+ HACKING: add link to Code of Conduct
+
+ Philip Withnall:
+ polkitbackend: comment typos fix
+
+ Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek:
+ configure.ac: fix detection of systemd with cgroups v2
+ CVE-2018-19788 High UIDs overflow fix
+
+ Colin Walters:
+ CVE-2019-6133 Slowfork vulnerability fix
+
+ Matthew Leeds:
+ Allow unset process-uid
+
+ Emmanuele Bassi
+ Port the JS authority to mozjs-60
+
+ Göran Uddeborg:
+ Use JS_EncodeStringToUTF8
+
+Many thanks to all contributors!
+
+Jan Rybar et al.,
+April 25, 2019
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polkit 0.115