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CVE-2017-2616

CVE-2017-2616

CVSS 5.5 MEDIUMEPSS 0.3%CWE-267
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.
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Affected products
Linux · util-linux

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References
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0654.htmlhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0907https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-2616https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/commit/dffab154d29a288aa171ff50263ecc8f2e14a891https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-02https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3793http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96404http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038271