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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
+<glsa id="201611-07">
+  <title>polkit: Heap-corruption on duplicate IDs </title>
+  <synopsis>polkit is vulnerable to local privilege escalation.</synopsis>
+  <product type="ebuild">polkit</product>
+  <announced>2016-11-15</announced>
+  <revised count="1">2016-11-15</revised>
+  <bug>555666</bug>
+  <access>local</access>
+  <affected>
+    <package name="sys-auth/polkit" auto="yes" arch="*">
+      <unaffected range="ge">0.113</unaffected>
+      <vulnerable range="lt">0.113</vulnerable>
+    </package>
+  </affected>
+  <background>
+    <p>polkit is a toolkit for managing policies relating to unprivileged
+      processes communicating with privileged processes.
+    </p>
+  </background>
+  <description>
+    <p>A vulnerability was discovered in polkit’s
+      polkit_backend_action_pool_init function due to duplicate action IDs in
+      action descriptions.
+    </p>
+  </description>
+  <impact type="normal">
+    <p>Local attackers are able to gain unauthorized privileges on the system.</p>
+  </impact>
+  <workaround>
+    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
+  </workaround>
+  <resolution>
+    <p>All polkit users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
+    
+    <code>
+      # emerge --sync
+      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=sys-auth/polkit-0.113"
+    </code>
+  </resolution>
+  <references>
+    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2015-3255">CVE-2015-3255</uri>
+  </references>
+  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2015-12-25T00:47:50Z">
+    BlueKnight
+  </metadata>
+  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2016-11-15T07:23:23Z">b-man</metadata>
+</glsa>