[IMPORTANT] CVE-2021-4034

[Jan Rybar]

All,

There has been an important security issue found by Qualys [1].
It has been assigned the number CVE-2021-4034.
The flaw poses an easy local privilege escalation threat.

All major distros should contain the patch right now.
If not, please download the following patch [2] ASAP!

Please, update your polkit package.

Thank you.

the Polkit team

[1] https://www.qualys.com/2022/01/25/cve-2021-4034/pwnkit.txt
[2]
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/polkit/polkit/-/commit/a2bf5c9c83b6ae46cbd5c779d3055bff81ded683
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