Issued:
2014-04-23
Updated:
2014-10-13

RHBA-2014:0425 - polkit-gnome bug fix update

Synopsis

polkit-gnome bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated polkit-gnome packages that fix one bug are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

The polkit-gnome packages provide an authentication agent for the polkit authentication manager, which is an application-level toolkit for defining and handling the policy that allows non-privileged processes communicate with privileged ones.

  • Due to a bug in the source code, the authentication dialog of the polkit GNOME authentication manager could send an invalid time stamp to the window manager when the dialog was displayed for the first time. Consequently, the dialog did not receive focus for keyboard input, and the input was sent to the previously-focused window instead. This bug has been fixed, and valid time stamps are now obtained and sent to the window manager. As a result, keyboard input is always sent to the displayed authentication dialog as expected. (BZ#872918)

Users of polkit-gnome are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix this bug.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at https://access.redhat.com/site/articles/11258

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian6ppc64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems6s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Retired Extended Life Cycle Support6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension (for IBM z Systems)6s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems)6s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop6i386

Updated Packages

  • polkit-gnome-debuginfo-0.96-4.el6.ppc64.rpm
  • polkit-gnome-docs-0.96-4.el6.s390x.rpm
  • polkit-gnome-devel-0.96-4.el6.s390x.rpm
  • polkit-gnome-0.96-4.el6.s390x.rpm
  • polkit-gnome-0.96-4.el6.ppc64.rpm
  • polkit-gnome-0.96-4.el6.s390.rpm
  • polkit-gnome-docs-0.96-4.el6.i686.rpm
  • polkit-gnome-devel-0.96-4.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • polkit-gnome-debuginfo-0.96-4.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • polkit-gnome-0.96-4.el6.i686.rpm
  • polkit-gnome-0.96-4.el6.ppc.rpm
  • polkit-gnome-docs-0.96-4.el6.ppc64.rpm
  • polkit-gnome-debuginfo-0.96-4.el6.i686.rpm
  • polkit-gnome-0.96-4.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • polkit-gnome-0.96-4.el6.src.rpm
  • polkit-gnome-devel-0.96-4.el6.ppc.rpm
  • polkit-gnome-docs-0.96-4.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • polkit-gnome-devel-0.96-4.el6.ppc64.rpm
  • polkit-gnome-debuginfo-0.96-4.el6.s390x.rpm
  • polkit-gnome-devel-0.96-4.el6.i686.rpm
  • polkit-gnome-debuginfo-0.96-4.el6.s390.rpm
  • polkit-gnome-debuginfo-0.96-4.el6.ppc.rpm
  • polkit-gnome-devel-0.96-4.el6.s390.rpm

Fixes

(none)

CVEs

(none)

References

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Additional information