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Red Hat: CVE-2021-4115: file descriptor leak allows an unprivileged user to cause a crash (Multiple Advisories)

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Red Hat: CVE-2021-4115: file descriptor leak allows an unprivileged user to cause a crash (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
02/21/2022
Created
04/29/2022
Added
04/29/2022
Modified
12/15/2023

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-polkit
  • redhat-upgrade-polkit-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-polkit-debugsource
  • redhat-upgrade-polkit-devel
  • redhat-upgrade-polkit-docs
  • redhat-upgrade-polkit-libs
  • redhat-upgrade-polkit-libs-debuginfo

References

  • CVE-2021-4115
  • RHSA-2022:1546

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