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.
History

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2018-07-27T19:00:00

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

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

Link: CVE-2017-2616

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

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

Modified: 2019-10-09T23:26:56.930

Link: CVE-2017-2616

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

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

Links: CVE-2017-2616 - Bugzilla