Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Jul 27, 2018· Updated Jun 9, 2025
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.
Affected products
1- Range: 2.32.1
Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
Vulnerability mechanics
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References
8- rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0654.htmlmitrevendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0907mitrevendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-02mitrevendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
- www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3793mitrevendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/96404mitrevdb-entryx_refsource_BID
- www.securitytracker.com/id/1038271mitrevdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgimitrex_refsource_CONFIRM
- github.com/karelzak/util-linux/commit/dffab154d29a288aa171ff50263ecc8f2e14a891mitrex_refsource_CONFIRM
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