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Major Linux PolicyKit security vulnerability uncovered: Pwnkit

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ZDNet; By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols 		Mail this story
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A serious memory corruption vulnerability in polkit (formerly PolicyKit) has finally been discovered after 12+ years. This program is found in essentially all modern Linux distributions.

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