Homepage
About Snyk

Race Condition Affecting coreutils package, versions <8.20-1

Severity

 Recommended
low

Based on Debian security rating

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.04% (6th percentile)

Do your applications use this vulnerable package?

In a few clicks we can analyze your entire application and see what components are vulnerable in your application, and suggest you quick fixes.

Test your applications
  • Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-COREUTILS-317483
  • published 27 Jun 2018
  • disclosed 27 Jul 2018
Report a new vulnerability Found a mistake?

Introduced: 27 Jun 2018

CVE-2017-2616 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-362 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-267 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:unstable coreutils to version 8.20-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream coreutils package and not the coreutils package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:unstable relevant fixed versions and status.

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.