vulnerability

Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2017-2616): shadow vulnerabilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Feb 23, 2017
Added
May 5, 2017
Modified
Mar 27, 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.

Solutions

ubuntu-upgrade-loginubuntu-upgrade-passwdubuntu-upgrade-uidmap

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