Security Advisory

CVE-2017-2616

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2018-07-27 19:00:00
Last updated 2025-06-09 15:37:51
Assigner redhat
CVSS score 5.5
State PUBLISHED

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.