Amazon Linux 2022 Security Advisory: ALAS-2022-097
Advisory Release Date: 2022-06-28 23:52 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2022-07-19 19:44 Pacific
Severity:
Medium
Issue Overview:
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. (CVE-2021-4115)
Affected Packages:
polkit
Issue Correction:
Run dnf update --releasever=2022.0.20220628 polkit to update your system.
New Packages:
aarch64:
polkit-libs-debuginfo-0.117-10.amzn2022.aarch64
polkit-debuginfo-0.117-10.amzn2022.aarch64
polkit-devel-0.117-10.amzn2022.aarch64
polkit-libs-0.117-10.amzn2022.aarch64
polkit-0.117-10.amzn2022.aarch64
polkit-debugsource-0.117-10.amzn2022.aarch64
noarch:
polkit-docs-0.117-10.amzn2022.noarch
src:
polkit-0.117-10.amzn2022.src
x86_64:
polkit-debuginfo-0.117-10.amzn2022.x86_64
polkit-libs-0.117-10.amzn2022.x86_64
polkit-0.117-10.amzn2022.x86_64
polkit-debugsource-0.117-10.amzn2022.x86_64
polkit-libs-debuginfo-0.117-10.amzn2022.x86_64
polkit-devel-0.117-10.amzn2022.x86_64