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Debian: CVE-2024-6126: cockpit -- security update

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Jul 3, 2024
Added
Sep 2, 2024
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

A flaw was found in the cockpit package. This flaw allows an authenticated user to kill any process when enabling the pam_env's user_readenv option, which leads to a denial of service (DoS) attack.

Solution

debian-upgrade-cockpit
Title
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