This one's a banger. RHEL 8, Fedora 21 or later, Debian Buster, and Ubuntu 20.04 were all affected... but earlier versions of each OS were not. If you're up to date on your packages, then there's nothing to be worried about.

https://github.blog/2021-06-10-privilege-escalation-polkit-root-on-linux-with-bug/ https://www.patreon.com/posts/52403047

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