FKIE_CVE-2026-4897

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-03-26 15:16 - Updated: 2026-03-30 13:26
Severity ?
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
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.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-4897
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2451739
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