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.
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{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2018-07-27T19:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2025-06-09T15:37:51.878Z

Reserved: 2016-12-01T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2017-2616

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-05T14:02:06.892Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2018-07-27T19:29:00.207

Modified: 2024-11-21T03:23:50.350

Link: CVE-2017-2616

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2017-02-22T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2017-2616 - Bugzilla