Issued:
2015-03-17
Updated:
2016-05-09

RHBA-2015:0692 - polkit bug fix update

Synopsis

polkit bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated polkit packages that fix two bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

PolicyKit is a toolkit for defining and handling authorizations. It is used for allowing unprivileged processes to speak to privileged processes.

This update fixes the following bugs:

  • Prior to this update, the polkitd daemon was not restarted after upgrading the polkit package, nor stopped after the package uninstallation. To fix this bug, scriptlets have been added to the polkit package. Upgrading the polkit package to the version shipped in this erratum does not yet restart the polkitd daemon. The daemon will be restarted after future upgrades from this version. (BZ#1115649)

  • Previously, the output of "pkcheck --help" did not match the supported arguments and their expected form. This update removes the unimplemented "--list-temp" option from "pkcheck --help", and fixes other aspects of the text as well. (BZ#1130156)

Users of polkit are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix these bugs.

Solution

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

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/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 - 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-devel-0.96-11.el6.ppc.rpm
  • polkit-0.96-11.el6.ppc.rpm
  • polkit-debuginfo-0.96-11.el6.s390.rpm
  • polkit-devel-0.96-11.el6.ppc64.rpm
  • polkit-devel-0.96-11.el6.s390.rpm
  • polkit-debuginfo-0.96-11.el6.ppc64.rpm
  • polkit-devel-0.96-11.el6.s390x.rpm
  • polkit-0.96-11.el6.s390.rpm
  • polkit-debuginfo-0.96-11.el6.i686.rpm
  • polkit-debuginfo-0.96-11.el6.s390x.rpm
  • polkit-docs-0.96-11.el6.s390x.rpm
  • polkit-docs-0.96-11.el6.ppc64.rpm
  • polkit-0.96-11.el6.s390x.rpm
  • polkit-devel-0.96-11.el6.i686.rpm
  • polkit-0.96-11.el6.ppc64.rpm
  • polkit-0.96-11.el6.i686.rpm
  • polkit-0.96-11.el6.src.rpm
  • polkit-0.96-11.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • polkit-docs-0.96-11.el6.i686.rpm
  • polkit-devel-0.96-11.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • polkit-docs-0.96-11.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • polkit-debuginfo-0.96-11.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • polkit-desktop-policy-0.96-11.el6.noarch.rpm
  • polkit-debuginfo-0.96-11.el6.ppc.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Additional information