Description
Linux distributions using CAP_SYS_NICE for gnome-shell may be exposed to a privilege escalation issue. An attacker, with low privilege permissions, may take advantage of the way CAP_SYS_NICE is currently implemented and eventually load code to increase its process scheduler priority leading to possible DoS of other services running in the same machine.
Published: 2022-04-29
Score: 5.5 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2021-27183 Linux distributions using CAP_SYS_NICE for gnome-shell may be exposed to a privilege escalation issue. An attacker, with low privilege permissions, may take advantage of the way CAP_SYS_NICE is currently implemented and eventually load code to increase its process scheduler priority leading to possible DoS of other services running in the same machine.
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Gnome Gnome-shell
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-03T17:09:09.635Z

Reserved: 2021-11-19T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2021-3982

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-04-29T17:15:19.927

Modified: 2024-11-21T06:23:18.190

Link: CVE-2021-3982

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2021-11-24T13:36:00Z

Links: CVE-2021-3982 - Bugzilla

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