vulnerability
CentOS Linux: CVE-2021-4115: Moderate: polkit security update (CESA-2022:1546)
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P) | Feb 21, 2022 | Apr 29, 2022 | May 25, 2023 |
Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Feb 21, 2022
Added
Apr 29, 2022
Modified
May 25, 2023
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
Solution(s)
centos-upgrade-polkitcentos-upgrade-polkit-debuginfocentos-upgrade-polkit-debugsourcecentos-upgrade-polkit-develcentos-upgrade-polkit-docscentos-upgrade-polkit-libscentos-upgrade-polkit-libs-debuginfo
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