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Jaroslav Reznik 2017-02-03 08:28:05 UTC Link ID Red Hat Knowledge Base (Solution) 2898921
Miloslav Trmač 2017-02-03 15:56:43 UTC Version 7.2 7.3
Miloslav Trmač 2017-02-03 16:58:30 UTC Status NEW MODIFIED
Fixed In Version polkit-0.112-10.el7_3
Miloslav Trmač 2017-02-03 17:00:32 UTC Doc Text Cause: The polkit daemon was not correctly freeing memory allocated when evaluating a Polkit.spawn method in JavaScript rules.

Consequence: During ordinary operation, polkitd memory usage was growing without bounds, eventually exhausting system resources or causing polkitd to terminate.

Fix: The polkit daemon was fixed to free the memory as necessary.

Result:
Doc Type If docs needed, set a value Bug Fix
errata-xmlrpc 2017-02-03 17:04:49 UTC Status MODIFIED ON_QA
Karel Srot 2017-02-07 15:09:40 UTC QA Contact qe-baseos-security ksrot
Karel Srot 2017-02-09 09:09:38 UTC Status ON_QA ASSIGNED
Miloslav Trmač 2017-02-13 15:37:55 UTC Status ASSIGNED MODIFIED
Fixed In Version polkit-0.112-10.el7_3 polkit-0.112-11.el7_3
errata-xmlrpc 2017-02-13 15:50:32 UTC Status MODIFIED ON_QA
Karel Srot 2017-02-14 09:30:55 UTC Status ON_QA VERIFIED
Ioanna Gkioka 2017-02-22 07:48:30 UTC CC igkioka
Doc Text Cause: The polkit daemon was not correctly freeing memory allocated when evaluating a Polkit.spawn method in JavaScript rules.

Consequence: During ordinary operation, polkitd memory usage was growing without bounds, eventually exhausting system resources or causing polkitd to terminate.

Fix: The polkit daemon was fixed to free the memory as necessary.

Result:
Previously, the polkit daemon (polkitd) was not able to correctly free all memory allocated during normal operation. Consequently, the memory allocated to polkitd continued to grow. When the system ran out of memory, the kernel
terminated the process unexpectedly. This bug has been fixed and the polkitd now can free the memory as expected.
errata-xmlrpc 2017-03-02 00:33:06 UTC Status VERIFIED RELEASE_PENDING
errata-xmlrpc 2017-03-02 17:27:54 UTC Status RELEASE_PENDING CLOSED
Resolution --- ERRATA
Last Closed 2017-03-02 12:27:54 UTC

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