CVE-2021-4115
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2022-02-21 00:00
Modified
2024-08-03 17:16
Severity ?
EPSS score ?
0.07% (0.34895)
Summary
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
secalert@redhat.comhttp://packetstormsecurity.com/files/172849/polkit-File-Descriptor-Exhaustion.html
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2021-4115Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://gitlab.com/redhat/centos-stream/rpms/polkit/-/merge_requests/6/diffs?commit_id=bf900df04dc390d389e59aa10942b0f2b15c531ePatch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://gitlab.freedesktop.org/polkit/polkit/-/issues/141Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VGKWCBS6IDZYYDYM2WIWJM5BL7QQTWPF/
secalert@redhat.comhttps://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2022.htmlPatch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/172849/polkit-File-Descriptor-Exhaustion.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2021-4115Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://gitlab.com/redhat/centos-stream/rpms/polkit/-/merge_requests/6/diffs?commit_id=bf900df04dc390d389e59aa10942b0f2b15c531ePatch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/polkit/polkit/-/issues/141Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VGKWCBS6IDZYYDYM2WIWJM5BL7QQTWPF/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2022.htmlPatch, Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a polkitd Version: 0.117
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