Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2017-2616: Security patch for util-linux (ALAS-2017-823)
5
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
02/23/2017
07/25/2018
05/03/2017
10/14/2022
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.
Solution(s)
- amazon-linux-upgrade-util-linux
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