<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">In case you missed the announcement yesterday [1][2], there was a really nasty vulnerability in polkit released. All major distributions should have fixes for it now so I urge everyone to update their systems ASAP.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">We upgraded all of our systems yesterday without any issues. I also recommend everyone to enable automatic upgrades on your systems if you're able to.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">[1] <a href="https://blog.qualys.com/vulnerabilities-threat-research/2022/01/25/pwnkit-local-privilege-escalation-vulnerability-discovered-in-polkits-pkexec-cve-2021-4034">https://blog.qualys.com/vulnerabilities-threat-research/2022/01/25/pwnkit-local-privilege-escalation-vulnerability-discovered-in-polkits-pkexec-cve-2021-4034</a><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">[2] <a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/882609/">https://lwn.net/Articles/882609/</a></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Lance Albertson</font><div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Director</font></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Oregon State University | </span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Open Source Lab </span></div></div></div></div></div>