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CVE-2017-2616
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…
Medium5.5EPSS 0.28%
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- Updated
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- Assigned by
- redhat
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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| redhatCNA (assigner) | 3.0 | Medium5.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Medium4.7 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.28% · top 79% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.5.
Weakness
Affected products
- affected 2.32.1
References (8)
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-2616 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 96404 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- RHSA-2017:0907 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2017:0654 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- GLSA-201706-02 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- DSA-3793 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/commit/dffab154d29a288aa171ff50263ecc8f2e14a891 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 1038271 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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