Source: polkitd Version: 127-2 Severity: important Tags: security upstream X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected], Debian Security Team <[email protected]>
Hi, The following vulnerability was published for policykit-1. CVE-2026-4897[0]: | A flaw was found in polkit. A local user can exploit this by | providing a specially crafted, excessively long input to the | `polkit-agent-helper-1` setuid binary via standard input (stdin). | This unbounded input can lead to an out-of-memory (OOM) condition, | resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS) for the system. If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry. For further information see: [0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2026-4897 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-4897 [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2451739 [2] https://github.com/polkit-org/polkit/commit/7e122c8a5120c2aae2d9d44a26796dc18f5b677c Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed. Regards, Salvatore
