CVE-2021-4115 (GCVE-0-2021-4115)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-02-21 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-03 17:16
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Summary
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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n/a polkitd Affected: 0.117
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