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CVE-2021-4115

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

Risk Information

Base Score
5.5
MODERATE
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score
Exploitation Probability
0.106

Associated Vulnerability

VulnerabilityOS Platform
SUSE-SU-2022:0524-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP5 ) libpolkit0-0.113-5.27.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2022:0524-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP5 ) libpolkit0-debuginfo-0.113-5.27.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2022:0524-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP5 ) polkit-0.113-5.27.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2022:0524-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP5 ) polkit-debuginfo-0.113-5.27.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2022:0524-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP5 ) polkit-debugsource-0.113-5.27.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2022:0524-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP5 ) typelib-1_0-Polkit-1_0-0.113-5.27.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
(RHSA-2022:1546) polkit security update polkit-0.115-13.el8_5.2.x86_64.rpmLinux
(RHSA-2022:1546) polkit security update polkit-debugsource-0.115-13.el8_5.2.i686.rpmLinux
(RHSA-2022:1546) polkit security update polkit-debugsource-0.115-13.el8_5.2.x86_64.rpmLinux
(RHSA-2022:1546) polkit security update polkit-devel-0.115-13.el8_5.2.i686.rpmLinux
(RHSA-2022:1546) polkit security update polkit-devel-0.115-13.el8_5.2.x86_64.rpmLinux
(RHSA-2022:1546) polkit security update polkit-docs-0.115-13.el8_5.2.noarch.rpmLinux
(RHSA-2022:1546) polkit security update polkit-libs-0.115-13.el8_5.2.i686.rpmLinux
(RHSA-2022:1546) polkit security update polkit-libs-0.115-13.el8_5.2.x86_64.rpmLinux
Polkit update (ELSA-2022-1546) polkit-0.115-13.0.1.el8_5.2.x86_64.rpmLinux
Polkit-devel update (ELSA-2022-1546) polkit-devel-0.115-13.0.1.el8_5.2.i686.rpmLinux
Polkit-devel update (ELSA-2022-1546) polkit-devel-0.115-13.0.1.el8_5.2.x86_64.rpmLinux
Polkit-docs update (ELSA-2022-1546) polkit-docs-0.115-13.0.1.el8_5.2.noarch.rpmLinux
Polkit-libs update (ELSA-2022-1546) polkit-libs-0.115-13.0.1.el8_5.2.i686.rpmLinux
Polkit-libs update (ELSA-2022-1546) polkit-libs-0.115-13.0.1.el8_5.2.x86_64.rpmLinux
polkit security update (RLSA-2022:1546) polkit-0.115-13.el8_5.2.x86_64.rpmLinux
polkit security update (RLSA-2022:1546) polkit-docs-0.115-13.el8_5.2.noarch.rpmLinux
polkit security update (RLSA-2022:1546) polkit-libs-0.115-13.el8_5.2.i686.rpmLinux
polkit security update (RLSA-2022:1546) polkit-libs-0.115-13.el8_5.2.x86_64.rpmLinux
polkit security update (RLSA-2022:1546) polkit-devel-0.115-13.el8_5.2.i686.rpmLinux
polkit security update (RLSA-2022:1546) polkit-devel-0.115-13.el8_5.2.x86_64.rpmLinux
(RHSA-2022:1546)Moderate: security update polkit-debuginfo-0.115-13.el8_5.2.i686.rpmLinux
(RHSA-2022:1546)Moderate: security update polkit-debuginfo-0.115-13.el8_5.2.x86_64.rpmLinux
(RHSA-2022:1546)Moderate: security update polkit-libs-debuginfo-0.115-13.el8_5.2.i686.rpmLinux
(RHSA-2022:1546)Moderate: security update polkit-libs-debuginfo-0.115-13.el8_5.2.x86_64.rpmLinux
framework for managing administrative policies and privileges (USN-5304-1) policykit-1_0.105-26ubuntu1.3_i386.debLinux
framework for managing administrative policies and privileges (USN-5304-1) policykit-1_0.105-26ubuntu1.3_amd64.debLinux
framework for managing administrative policies and privileges (USN-5304-1) policykit-1_0.105-31ubuntu0.2_i386.debLinux
framework for managing administrative policies and privileges (USN-5304-1) policykit-1_0.105-31ubuntu0.2_amd64.debLinux
polkit Security Update (ALAS2023-2023-026) polkit-0.117-10.amzn2023.0.3.x86_64.rpmLinux
polkit Security Update (ALAS2023-2023-026) polkit-devel-0.117-10.amzn2023.0.3.x86_64.rpmLinux
polkit Security Update (ALAS2023-2023-026) polkit-docs-0.117-10.amzn2023.0.3.noarch.rpmLinux
polkit Security Update (ALAS2023-2023-026) polkit-libs-0.117-10.amzn2023.0.3.x86_64.rpmLinux

Patch Details

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References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1234
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-1234