There is a flaw in polkit which can allow an unprivileged user to cause polkit to crash, due to process file descriptor exhaustion. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to availability. NOTE: Polkit process outage duration is tied to the failing process being reaped and a new one being spawned
References
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http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/172849/polkit-File-Descriptor-Exhaustion.html | |
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2021-4115 | Third Party Advisory |
https://gitlab.com/redhat/centos-stream/rpms/polkit/-/merge_requests/6/diffs?commit_id=bf900df04dc390d389e59aa10942b0f2b15c531e | Patch Third Party Advisory |
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/polkit/polkit/-/issues/141 | Exploit Issue Tracking Patch Third Party Advisory |
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VGKWCBS6IDZYYDYM2WIWJM5BL7QQTWPF/ | |
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2022.html | Patch Third Party Advisory |
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MITRE Information
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: redhat
Published: 2022-02-21T00:00:00
Updated: 2023-06-12T00:00:00
Reserved: 2021-12-14T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2021-4115
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NVD Information
Status : Modified
Published: 2022-02-21T22:15:07.743
Modified: 2023-11-07T03:40:12.320
Link: CVE-2021-4115
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CWE