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 unboun…
Medium CVSS 5.5
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.
In-depth triage
No in-depth report has been generated yet (DR-003 v2 AI pipeline is under construction).
Affected products
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Sources
- NVD DATABASE
Original Links
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-4897 Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2451739 Issue Tracking
Timeline
- nvd_ingest NVD