MGASA-2022-0080 - Updated polkit packages fix security vulnerability Publication date: 22 Feb 2022 URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2022-0080.html Type: security Affected Mageia releases: 8 CVE: CVE-2021-4115 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/[email protected]/thread/D6R7S5GYVKZ4LZLTJ5KNEDZRGJISXBAZ/ - https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/thread/KLISGPPFV5UH2W72SRUBNVWZWI7CWAAY/ - https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-4115 SRPMS: - 8/core/polkit-0.118-1.3.mga8