CVE-2017-2616
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CVE Details
| Release Date: | 2018-07-27 | |
| Impact: | Moderate | What is this? |
Description
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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NOTE: The following CVSS metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.
CVSS v3 metrics
| Base Score: | 4.7 |
| Vector String: | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
| Version: | 3.0 |
| Attack Vector: | Local |
| Attack Complexity: | High |
| Privileges Required: | Low |
| User Interaction: | None |
| Scope: | Unchanged |
| Confidentiality Impact: | None |
| Integrity Impact: | None |
| Availability Impact: | High |
Errata information
| Platform | Errata | Release Date |
| Oracle Linux version 6 (coreutils) | ELSA-2017-0654 | 2017-03-27 |
| Oracle Linux version 7 (util-linux) | ELSA-2017-0907 | 2017-04-12 |
| Oracle VM version 3.3 (coreutils) | OVMSA-2017-0052 | 2017-03-29 |
| Oracle VM version 3.4 (coreutils) | OVMSA-2017-0052 | 2017-03-29 |
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