fkie_cve-2024-48991
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd
Published
2024-11-19 18:15
Modified
2025-11-03 23:16
Severity ?
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
Qualys discovered that needrestart, before version 3.8, allows local attackers to execute arbitrary code as root by winning a race condition and tricking needrestart into running their own, fake Python interpreter (instead of the system's real Python interpreter). The initial security fix (6ce6136) introduced a regression which was subsequently resolved (42af5d3).
References
security@ubuntu.comhttps://github.com/liske/needrestart/commit/42af5d328901287a4f79d1f5861ac827a53fd56dPatch
security@ubuntu.comhttps://github.com/liske/needrestart/commit/6ce6136cccc307c6b8a0f8cae12f9a22ac2aad59Patch
security@ubuntu.comhttps://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-48991VDB Entry
security@ubuntu.comhttps://www.qualys.com/2024/11/19/needrestart/needrestart.txtThird Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2024/Nov/17
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/11/30/4Mailing List
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/11/msg00014.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/11/19/1Mailing List
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
needrestart_project needrestart *


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