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SUSE: CVE-2021-4115: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

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SUSE: CVE-2021-4115: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
02/19/2022
Created
02/24/2022
Added
02/19/2022
Modified
06/13/2023

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)

  • suse-upgrade-libpolkit-agent-1-0
  • suse-upgrade-libpolkit-gobject-1-0
  • suse-upgrade-libpolkit0
  • suse-upgrade-libpolkit0-32bit
  • suse-upgrade-pkexec
  • suse-upgrade-polkit
  • suse-upgrade-polkit-devel
  • suse-upgrade-polkit-doc
  • suse-upgrade-typelib-1_0-polkit-1_0

References

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