Bug 2054222

Summary:	CVE-2021-4115 polkit-qt: polkit: file descriptor leak allows an unprivileged user to cause a crash [epel-8]
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora EPEL	Reporter:	devthomp
Component:	polkit-qt	Assignee:	Rex Dieter <rdieter>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	epel8	CC:	jrybar, kde-sig, m, rdieter, than
Target Milestone:	---	Keywords:	Reopened, Security, SecurityTracking
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Hardware:	Unspecified
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Last Closed:	2025-03-10 23:34:01 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Blocks:	2007534

Description devthomp 2022-02-14 13:08:15 UTC

This is an automatically created tracking bug!  It was created to ensure
that one or more security vulnerabilities are fixed in affected versions
of epel-8.

For comments that are specific to the vulnerability please use bugs filed
against the "Security Response" product referenced in the "Blocks" field.

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http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Security/TrackingBugs

When submitting as an update, use the fedpkg template provided in the next
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the relevant top-level CVE bugs.

Please also mention the CVE IDs being fixed in the RPM changelog and the
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Comment 1 devthomp 2022-02-14 13:08:17 UTC

Use the following template to for the 'fedpkg update' request to submit an
update for this issue as it contains the top-level parent bug(s) as well as
this tracking bug.  This will ensure that all associated bugs get updated
when new packages are pushed to stable.

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# bugfix, security, enhancement, newpackage (required)
type=security

# low, medium, high, urgent (required)
severity=medium

# testing, stable
request=testing

# Bug numbers: 1234,9876
bugs=2007534,2054222

# Description of your update
notes=Security fix for [PUT CVEs HERE]

# Enable request automation based on the stable/unstable karma thresholds
autokarma=True
stable_karma=3
unstable_karma=-3

# Automatically close bugs when this marked as stable
close_bugs=True

# Suggest that users restart after update
suggest_reboot=False

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Comment 2 Jan Rybar 2022-02-24 14:16:34 UTC

I believe polkit-qt is not related to polkit package as is. 
AFAIK polkit-qt is a set of graphical libraries written as wrappers to communicate with polkit via polkit API.

Please, correct me if I'm wrong, but I think there is nothing to be done in association with CVE-2021-4115 here.