Bug 2007534 (CVE-2021-4115)
| Summary: | CVE-2021-4115 polkit: file descriptor leak allows an unprivileged user to cause a crash | ||
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| Product: | [Other] Security Response | Reporter: | Marian Rehak <mrehak> |
| Component: | vulnerability | Assignee: | Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team> |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | unspecified | CC: | jburrell, jrybar, kde-sig, mitr, m, polkit-devel, rdieter, security-response-team, tgunders, than, vkumar |
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Security |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | polkit 0.1179 | Doc Type: | If docs needed, set a value |
| Doc Text: |
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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Story Points: | --- |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2022-04-27 04:46:06 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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| Bug Depends On: | 2054222, 2009088, 2009089, 2050263, 2054127, 2054220, 2054221, 2062644 | ||
| Bug Blocks: | 2007535, 2032416 | ||
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Description
Marian Rehak
2021-09-24 07:58:37 UTC
Created polkit tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: fedora-all [bug 2054220] Created polkit-qt tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: epel-8 [bug 2054222] Affects: fedora-all [bug 2054221] This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Via RHSA-2022:1546 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:1546 This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s): https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2021-4115 |