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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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2022-02-21T00:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-03T17:16:04.361Z

Reserved: 2021-12-14T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2021-4115

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-02-21T22:15:07.743

Modified: 2024-11-21T06:36:55.837

Link: CVE-2021-4115

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2022-02-14T13:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2021-4115 - Bugzilla