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CVE-2017-2616
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2018-07-27T19:29:00.207 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:16:30.897

Summary

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

util-linux_project — util-linux

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References

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