Published: 21/02/2022 Updated: 07/11/2023

CVSS v2 Base Score: 2.1 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 3.9

CVSS v3 Base Score: 5.5 | Impact Score: 3.6 | Exploitability Score: 1.8

VMScore: 187

Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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

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Synopsis Moderate: Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management 244 security updates and bug fixes Type/Severity Security Advisory: Moderate Topic Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 244 GeneralAvailability release images This update provides security fixes, bug fixes, and updates container imagesRed Hat Product Security has rated ...

Synopsis Important: OpenShift Virtualization 4110 Images security and bug fix update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Important Topic Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization release 4110 is now available with updates to packages and images that fix several bugs and add enhancementsRed Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a secur ...

Synopsis Important: OpenShift Container Platform 4110 bug fix and security update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Important Topic Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform release 4110 is now available withupdates to packages and images that fix several bugs and add enhancementsThis release includes a security update for Red Hat OpenShift Co ...

Synopsis Moderate: Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management 2310 security updates and bug fixes Type/Severity Security Advisory: Moderate Topic Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2310 GeneralAvailability release images, which provide security updates and bug fixesRed Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a secur ...

Debian Bug report logs - #1005784 policykit-1: CVE-2021-4115: file descriptor leak allows an unprivileged user to cause a crash Package: src:policykit-1; Maintainer for src:policykit-1 is Utopia Maintenance Team <pkg-utopia-maintainers@listsaliothdebianorg>; Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debianorg> Dat ...

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 time is tied to the failing process being reaped and a new one being spawned ...

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

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) ...

ALAS-2022-220 Amazon Linux 2022 Security Advisory: ALAS-2022-220 Advisory Release Date: 2022-12-06 16:42 Pacific ...

oss-sec mailing list archives   By Date By Thread </form>    Re: CVE-2021-4115: polkit: file descriptor leak allows an unprivileged user to cause a crash  <!-- ...

NVD-CWE-Other https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2021-4115 https://gitlab.com/redhat/centos-stream/rpms/polkit/-/merge_requests/6/diffs?commit_id=bf900df04dc390d389e59aa10942b0f2b15c531e https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/polkit/polkit/-/issues/141 https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2022.html http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/172849/polkit-File-Descriptor-Exhaustion.html https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VGKWCBS6IDZYYDYM2WIWJM5BL7QQTWPF/https://nvd.nist.gov https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:1681 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2021-4115

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