{"id":"RLSA-2022:1546","summary":"Moderate: 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: file descriptor leak allows an unprivileged user to cause a crash (CVE-2021-4115)\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":"2026-02-04T12:30:05.746321Z","published":"2022-04-26T13:49:20Z","upstream":["CVE-2021-4115"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://errata.rockylinux.org/RLSA-2022:1546"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2007534"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"polkit","ecosystem":"Rocky Linux:8","purl":"pkg:rpm/rocky-linux/polkit?distro=rocky-linux-8&epoch=0"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"0:0.115-13.el8_5.2"}],"database_specific":{"yum_repository":"BaseOS"}}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/resf-osv-data/RLSA-2022:1546.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.3","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"}],"credits":[{"name":"Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation"},{"name":"Red Hat"}]}