{"id":"ALSA-2022:0267","summary":"Important: polkit security update","details":"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.\n\nSecurity Fix(es):\n\n* polkit: Local privilege escalation in pkexec due to incorrect handling of argument vector (CVE-2021-4034)\n\nFor 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.","modified":"2026-02-04T03:53:12.553272Z","published":"2022-01-25T17:38:41Z","related":["CVE-2021-4034"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://errata.almalinux.org/8/ALSA-2022-0267.html"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2021-4034"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"polkit","ecosystem":"AlmaLinux:8","purl":"pkg:rpm/almalinux/polkit"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"0.115-13.el8_5.2"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/AlmaLinux/osv-database/blob/master/advisories/almalinux8/ALSA-2022:0267.json"}},{"package":{"name":"polkit-devel","ecosystem":"AlmaLinux:8","purl":"pkg:rpm/almalinux/polkit-devel"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"0.115-13.el8_5.2"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/AlmaLinux/osv-database/blob/master/advisories/almalinux8/ALSA-2022:0267.json"}},{"package":{"name":"polkit-docs","ecosystem":"AlmaLinux:8","purl":"pkg:rpm/almalinux/polkit-docs"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"0.115-13.el8_5.2"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/AlmaLinux/osv-database/blob/master/advisories/almalinux8/ALSA-2022:0267.json"}},{"package":{"name":"polkit-libs","ecosystem":"AlmaLinux:8","purl":"pkg:rpm/almalinux/polkit-libs"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"0.115-13.el8_5.2"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/AlmaLinux/osv-database/blob/master/advisories/almalinux8/ALSA-2022:0267.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.3"}