ghsa-qmwq-wgvm-pcqr
Vulnerability from github
Published
2022-05-13 01:36
Modified
2022-05-13 01:36
Severity ?
4.7 (Medium) - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Details

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.

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  "affected": [],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2017-2616"
  ],
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    "github_reviewed_at": null,
    "nvd_published_at": "2018-07-27T19:29:00Z",
    "severity": "MODERATE"
  },
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  "id": "GHSA-qmwq-wgvm-pcqr",
  "modified": "2022-05-13T01:36:54Z",
  "published": "2022-05-13T01:36:54Z",
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      "url": "https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-02"
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      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3793"
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    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96404"
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}


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