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Red Hat Enterprise Linux: RHSA-2022:1546-01 Moderate Polkit Security Threat

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Calendar Grey April 27, 2022
Dist Redhat Esm H88
A security bulletin concerning polkit for Red Hat 8, highlighting a moderate vulnerability that could lead to significant system ramifications.
An update for polkit is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Summary

The polkit packages provide a component for controlling system-wide privileges. This component provides a uniform and organized way for non-privileged processes to communicate with privileged ones.
Security Fix(es):
* polkit: file descriptor leak allows an unprivileged user to cause a crash (CVE-2021-4115)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory security update Red Hat Enterprise Linux moderate impact system privileges polkit issue

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-4115 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8):
Source: polkit-0.115-13.el8_5.2.src.rpm
aarch64: polkit-0.115-13.el8_5.2.aarch64.rpm polkit-debuginfo-0.115-13.el8_5.2.aarch64.rpm polkit-debugsource-0.115-13.el8_5.2.aarch64.rpm polkit-devel-0.115-13.el8_5.2.aarch64.rpm polkit-libs-0.115-13.el8_5.2.aarch64.rpm polkit-libs-debuginfo-0.115-13.el8_5.2.aarch64.rpm
noarch: polkit-docs-0.115-13.el8_5.2.noarch.rpm
ppc64le: polkit-0.115-13.el8_5.2.ppc64le.rpm polkit-debuginfo-0.115-13.el8_5.2.ppc64le.rpm polkit-debugsource-0.115-13.el8_5.2.ppc64le.rpm polkit-devel-0.115-13.el8_5.2.ppc64le.rpm polkit-libs-0.115-13.el8_5.2.ppc64le.rpm polkit-libs-debuginfo-0.115-13.el8_5.2.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: polkit-0.115-13.el8_5.2.s390x.rpm polkit-debuginfo-0.115-13.el8_5.2.s390x.rpm polkit-debugsource-0.115-13.el8_5.2.s390x.rpm polkit-devel-0.115-13.el8_5.2.s390x.rpm polkit-libs-0.115-13.el8_5.2.s390x.rpm polkit-libs-debuginfo-0.115-13.el8_5.2.s390x.rpm
x86_64: polkit-0.115-13.el8_5.2.x86_64.rpm polkit-debuginfo-0.115-13.el8_5.2.i686.rpm polkit-debuginfo-0.115-13.el8_5.2.x86_64.rpm polkit-debugsource-0.115-13.el8_5.2.i686.rpm polkit-debugsource-0.115-13.el8_5.2.x86_64.rpm polkit-devel-0.115-13.el8_5.2.i686.rpm polkit-devel-0.115-13.el8_5.2.x86_64.rpm polkit-libs-0.115-13.el8_5.2.i686.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


Advisory ID: RHSA-2022:1546-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:1546
Issue date: 2022-04-26

Topic

An update for polkit is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, whichgives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability fromthe CVE link(s) in the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory security update Red Hat Enterprise Linux moderate impact system privileges polkit issue

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8) - aarch64, noarch, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

2007534 - CVE-2021-4115 polkit: file descriptor leak allows an unprivileged user to cause a crash

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