| Name | CVE-2017-2616 |
| Description | Sending SIGKILL to other processes with root privileges via su |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub 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) | wheezy | 8.13-3.5 | vulnerable |
| jessie | 8.23-4 | fixed |
| stretch | 8.26-3 | fixed |
| buster, sid | 8.28-1 | fixed |
| shadow (PTS) | wheezy | 1:4.1.5.1-1 | vulnerable |
| wheezy (security) | 1:4.1.5.1-1+deb7u1 | fixed |
| jessie (security), jessie | 1:4.2-3+deb8u4 | fixed |
| stretch | 1:4.4-4.1 | fixed |
| buster, sid | 1:4.5-1 | fixed |
| util-linux (PTS) | wheezy | 2.20.1-5.3 | vulnerable |
| jessie | 2.25.2-6 | vulnerable |
| stretch | 2.29.2-1 | fixed |
| stretch (security) | 2.29.2-1+deb9u1 | fixed |
| buster, sid | 2.32-0.1 | 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.