vulnerability

Gentoo Linux: CVE-2017-2616: Shadow: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Jun 6, 2017
Added
Oct 30, 2017
Modified
Mar 31, 2026

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

gentoo-linux-upgrade-sys-apps-shadow
Title
Rapid7 Labs

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