Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-1953-1)

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USN-1953-1: polkit vulnerability

It was discovered that polkit didn't allow applications to use the pkcheck tool in a way which prevented a race condition in the UID lookup. A local attacker could use this flaw to possibly escalate privileges...