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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Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-838-1 shadow security update
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-3793-1 shadow security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2017-11777 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.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-3276-1 shadow vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-3276-3 shadow vulnerability
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History

Sat, 12 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

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Metrics epss

{'score': 0.0003}

epss

{'score': 0.00061}


Mon, 09 Jun 2025 16:15:00 +0000

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Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2025-06-09T15:37:51.878Z

Reserved: 2016-12-01T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2017-2616

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-05T14:02:06.892Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2018-07-27T19:29:00.207

Modified: 2024-11-21T03:23:50.350

Link: CVE-2017-2616

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2017-02-22T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2017-2616 - Bugzilla

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