Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2021-4115  

There is a file descriptor leak in polkit, which can enable an unprivileged user to cause polkit to crash, due to file descriptor exhaustion.

Severity Medium

Remote No

Type Denial of service

Description

There is a file descriptor leak in polkit, which can enable an unprivileged user to cause polkit to crash, due to file descriptor exhaustion.

AVG-2654 polkit 0.120-4 0.120-5 Medium Fixed

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/02/18/5
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/polkit/polkit/-/issues/141
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/polkit/polkit/-/commit/41cb093f554da8772362654a128a84dd8a5542a7