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Mageia 8: 2022-0080 Critical: Polkit File Descriptor Leak Issue

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Calendar Grey February 22, 2022
Dist Mageia Esm H88
MGASA-2022-0081 resolves a vulnerability in networkd, addressing a serious flaw identified on March 15, 2022.
There is a file descriptor leak in polkit, which can enable an unprivileged user to cause polkit to crash, due to file descriptor exhaustion

Summary

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/

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- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/KLISGPPFV5UH2W72SRUBNVWZWI7CWAAY/

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-4115

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory critical issue file descriptor leak polkit Mageia

Resolution

SRPMS

- 8/core/polkit-0.118-1.3.mga8

Severity
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Critical

Publication date: 22 Feb 2022
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2022-0080.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2021-4115

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory critical issue file descriptor leak polkit Mageia

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