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Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published Jul 27, 2018· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2017-2616

CVE-2017-2616

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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