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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2021-4115: polkit security update

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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2021-4115: polkit security update

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
02/21/2022
Created
04/27/2022
Added
04/26/2022
Modified
04/26/2022

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)

  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp8-upgrade-polkit
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp8-upgrade-polkit-devel
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp8-upgrade-polkit-docs
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp8-upgrade-polkit-libs

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