OESA-2022-1572

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    OESA-2022-1572

    Published: 12 Mar 2022Last Modified: 18 Aug 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2021-4115

    Summary: polkit security update

    Details: polkit is a toolkit for defining and handling authorizations. It is used for allowing unprivileged processes to speak to privileged processes. Security Fix(es): 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)

    References: https://www.openeuler.org/en/security/safety-bulletin/detail.html?id=openEuler-SA-2022-1572, https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-4115

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: polkit

    Purl: pkg:rpm/openEuler/polkit&distro=openEuler-20.03-LTS-SP1

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -0.116-9.oe1

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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