| Name | CVE-2017-2616 |
| 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-838-1, DSA-3793-1 |
| Debian Bugs | 855943 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| coreutils (PTS) | bullseye | 8.32-4 | fixed |
| bookworm | 9.1-1 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 9.5-1 | fixed |
| shadow (PTS) | bullseye | 1:4.8.1-1 | fixed |
| bookworm | 1:4.13+dfsg1-1 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 1:4.16.0-7 | fixed |
| util-linux (PTS) | bullseye (security), bullseye | 2.36.1-8+deb11u2 | fixed |
| bookworm | 2.38.1-5+deb12u3 | fixed |
| bookworm (security) | 2.38.1-5+deb12u1 | fixed |
| trixie | 2.40.4-1 | fixed |
| sid | 2.40.4-2 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
https://github.com/shadow-maint/shadow/commit/08fd4b69e84364677a10e519ccb25b71710ee686
https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/commit/dffab154d29a288aa171ff50263ecc8f2e14a891
Coreutils: Removed from source in https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/commit/?id=928dd737
and not installed by default since 2007.