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
Link | Resource |
---|---|
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0654.html | Third Party Advisory |
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96404 | Third Party Advisory VDB Entry |
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038271 | Third Party Advisory VDB Entry |
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0907 | Third Party Advisory |
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-2616 | Issue Tracking Patch Third Party Advisory |
https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/commit/dffab154d29a288aa171ff50263ecc8f2e14a891 | Patch Third Party Advisory |
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-02 | Third Party Advisory |
https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3793 | Third Party Advisory |
History
No history.
MITRE Information
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: redhat
Published: 2018-07-27T19:00:00
Updated: 2018-07-28T09:57:01
Reserved: 2016-12-01T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2017-2616
JSON object: View
NVD Information
Status : Modified
Published: 2018-07-27T19:29:00.207
Modified: 2019-10-09T23:26:56.930
Link: CVE-2017-2616
JSON object: View
Redhat Information
No data.