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
secalert@redhat.comhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0654.htmlThird Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96404Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038271Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0907Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-2616Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/commit/dffab154d29a288aa171ff50263ecc8f2e14a891Patch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-02Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3793Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0654.htmlThird Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96404Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038271Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0907Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-2616Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/commit/dffab154d29a288aa171ff50263ecc8f2e14a891Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-02Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3793Third Party Advisory
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Vendor Product Version
Linux util-linux Version: 2.32.1
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