vulnerability
Red Hat: CVE-2021-4115: file descriptor leak allows an unprivileged user to cause a crash (Multiple Advisories)
Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
---|---|---|---|---|
2 | (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P) | 2022-02-21 | 2022-04-29 | 2023-12-15 |
Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
2022-02-21
Added
2022-04-29
Modified
2023-12-15
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)
redhat-upgrade-polkitredhat-upgrade-polkit-debuginforedhat-upgrade-polkit-debugsourceredhat-upgrade-polkit-develredhat-upgrade-polkit-docsredhat-upgrade-polkit-libsredhat-upgrade-polkit-libs-debuginfo
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