CVE-2017-2616

MediumCVSS 4.7/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 4.7/10CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-267 CWE-362

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published: Jul 27, 2018
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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