Mageia alert MGASA-2022-0080 (polkit)

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[updates-announce] MGASA-2022-0080: Updated polkit packages fix security vulnerability
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Tue, 22 Feb 2022 21:16:14 +0100
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Article
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

Description:
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-p...
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https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/security-announc...
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https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-ann...
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-4115

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