vulnerability

Amazon Linux 2023: CVE-2021-4115: Important priority package update for polkit

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Feb 14, 2022
Added
Feb 17, 2025
Modified
Jul 4, 2025

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
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.

Solutions

amazon-linux-2023-upgrade-polkitamazon-linux-2023-upgrade-polkit-debuginfoamazon-linux-2023-upgrade-polkit-debugsourceamazon-linux-2023-upgrade-polkit-develamazon-linux-2023-upgrade-polkit-docsamazon-linux-2023-upgrade-polkit-libsamazon-linux-2023-upgrade-polkit-libs-debuginfo
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