Security Advisory

CVE-2021-4115

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2022-02-21 00:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-03 17:16:04
Assigner redhat
State PUBLISHED

Description

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