OESA-2026-1814 (CVE-2026-4897)

Vulnerability from osv_openeuler – Published: 2026-04-03 11:10 – Updated: 2026-08-06 11:10 – Source website
VLAI
Summary
polkit security update
Details

polkit is a toolkit for defining and handling authorizations. It is used for allowing unprivileged processes to speak to privileged processes.

Security Fix(es):

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.(CVE-2026-4897)


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  "database_specific": {
    "severity": "Medium"
  },
  "details": "polkit is a toolkit for defining and handling authorizations. It is used for allowing unprivileged processes to speak to privileged processes.\r\n\r\nSecurity Fix(es):\n\nA 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.(CVE-2026-4897)",
  "id": "OESA-2026-1814",
  "modified": "2026-08-06T11:10:50Z",
  "published": "2026-04-03T11:10:50Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://www.openeuler.org/zh/security/security-bulletins/detail/?id=openEuler-SA-2026-1814"
    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-4897"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.7.2",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    }
  ],
  "summary": "polkit security update",
  "upstream": [
    "CVE-2026-4897"
  ]
}



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