CVE-2021-4115

 

Published at: - 21-02-2022 11:15

Last modified: - 09-08-2022 02:37

Total changes: - 6

Description

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

Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS)

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

 

Verification logic

 

Reference

• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2021-4115
• https://gitlab.com/redhat/centos-stream/rpms/polkit/-/merge_requests/6/diffs?commit_id=bf900df04dc390d389e59aa10942b0f2b15c531e
• https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/polkit/polkit/-/issues/141
• FEDORA-2022-5e6d5fe680-Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
• N/A-Patch, Third Party Advisory

 

Keywords

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CVE-2021-4115

 

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