Advisories » MGASA-2022-0080

Updated polkit packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 22 Feb 2022
Modification date: 22 Feb 2022
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 8
CVE: CVE-2021-4115

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. (CVE-2021-4115)
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30066
• https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/02/18/1
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2007534
• https://securitylab.github.com/advisories/GHSL-2021-077-polkit/
• https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/security-announce@lists.opensuse.org/thread/D6R7S5GYVKZ4LZLTJ5KNEDZRGJISXBAZ/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/KLISGPPFV5UH2W72SRUBNVWZWI7CWAAY/
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-4115

SRPMS

8/core

• polkit-0.118-1.3.mga8