Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting libpolkit-gobject-1-0 package, versions <123-160000.3.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.15% (4th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES1600-LIBPOLKITGOBJECT10-17342804
  • published16 Jun 2026
  • disclosed8 Jun 2026

Introduced: 8 Jun 2026

CVE-2026-4897  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:16.0.0 libpolkit-gobject-1-0 to version 123-160000.3.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libpolkit-gobject-1-0 package and not the libpolkit-gobject-1-0 package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:16.0.0 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1