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cve-2017-2616

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2018-07-27 19:00

Modified

2024-08-05 14:02

Severity ?

5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Summary

A race condition was found in util-linux before 2.32.1 in the way su handled the management of child processes. A local authenticated attacker could use this flaw to kill other processes with root privileges under specific conditions.

References

▼	URL	Tags
	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-2616	x_refsource_CONFIRM
	http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96404	vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID
	https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0907	vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT
	http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0654.html	vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT
	https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-02	vendor-advisory, x_refsource_GENTOO
	https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3793	vendor-advisory, x_refsource_DEBIAN
	https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/commit/dffab154d29a288aa171ff50263ecc8f2e14a891	x_refsource_CONFIRM
	http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038271	vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK

Impacted products

Vendor

Product

Version

▼

Linux

util-linux

Version: 2.32.1

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