ALAS2022-2022-097

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2021-4115  

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. (CVE-2021-4115)

ALAS2022-2022-097


Amazon Linux 2022 Security Advisory: ALAS-2022-097
Advisory Release Date: 2022-06-28 23:52 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2022-07-19 19:44 Pacific
Severity: Medium
References: CVE-2021-4115 

Issue Overview:

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. (CVE-2021-4115)


Affected Packages:

polkit


Issue Correction:
Run dnf update --releasever=2022.0.20220628 polkit to update your system.

New Packages:
aarch64:
    polkit-libs-debuginfo-0.117-10.amzn2022.aarch64
    polkit-debuginfo-0.117-10.amzn2022.aarch64
    polkit-devel-0.117-10.amzn2022.aarch64
    polkit-libs-0.117-10.amzn2022.aarch64
    polkit-0.117-10.amzn2022.aarch64
    polkit-debugsource-0.117-10.amzn2022.aarch64

i686:
    polkit-libs-debuginfo-0.117-10.amzn2022.i686
    polkit-libs-0.117-10.amzn2022.i686
    polkit-debuginfo-0.117-10.amzn2022.i686
    polkit-debugsource-0.117-10.amzn2022.i686
    polkit-0.117-10.amzn2022.i686
    polkit-devel-0.117-10.amzn2022.i686

noarch:
    polkit-docs-0.117-10.amzn2022.noarch

src:
    polkit-0.117-10.amzn2022.src

x86_64:
    polkit-debuginfo-0.117-10.amzn2022.x86_64
    polkit-libs-0.117-10.amzn2022.x86_64
    polkit-0.117-10.amzn2022.x86_64
    polkit-debugsource-0.117-10.amzn2022.x86_64
    polkit-libs-debuginfo-0.117-10.amzn2022.x86_64
    polkit-devel-0.117-10.amzn2022.x86_64