Race Condition Affecting util-linux package, versions *
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
High
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.04% (6th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN8-UTILLINUX-285840
- published 27 Jun 2018
- disclosed 27 Jul 2018
How to fix?
There is no fixed version for Debian:8
util-linux
.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream util-linux
package and not the util-linux
package as distributed by Debian
.
See How to fix?
for Debian:8
relevant fixed versions and status.
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
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-2616
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-2616
- https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3793
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-02
- https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/commit/dffab154d29a288aa171ff50263ecc8f2e14a891
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-2616
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0654.html
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0907
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96404
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038271
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2017-2616