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In practice I don't think this is exploitable in Fedora. The affected code, which implements the BackendServer class, is shipped (base/pkit.py). However, it only does so if the "policy-kit" configuration variable is set to yes -- and that is not the default for Fedora. Additionally, even if the configuration is changed, the BackendServer class is only instantiated in the pkservice.py module -- and this is explicitly *not* shipped in Fedora.