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ghsa-vvr6-r92h-x7jw

Vulnerability from github

Published

2022-02-22 00:00

Modified

2022-07-26 00:00

Severity ?

5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

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

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cve-2021-4115

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2022-02-21 00:00

Modified

2024-08-03 17:16

Severity ?

Summary

References

▼	URL	Tags
	https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2021-4115
	https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/polkit/polkit/-/issues/141
	https://gitlab.com/redhat/centos-stream/rpms/polkit/-/merge_requests/6/diffs?commit_id=bf900df04dc390d389e59aa10942b0f2b15c531e
	https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VGKWCBS6IDZYYDYM2WIWJM5BL7QQTWPF/	vendor-advisory
	https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2022.html
	http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/172849/polkit-File-Descriptor-Exhaustion.html

Impacted products

▼	Vendor	Product
	n/a	polkitd

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Sightings

Author	Source	Type	Date

Nomenclature

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Not patched: This vulnerability was not successfully patched by the user reporting the sighting.

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