medium5.5
CVE-2026-4897
A flaw was found in polkit.
Impact
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.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions |
|---|---|---|
| Freedesktop | Polkit | All versions |
| Redhat | Openshift Container Platform | Version 4.0 |
| Redhat | Enterprise Linux | Versions 6.0, 7.0, 8.0, 9.0, 10.0 |