CVE-2024-48992

Name	CVE-2024-48992
Description	Qualys discovered that needrestart, before version 3.8, allows local attackers to execute arbitrary code as root by tricking needrestart into running the Ruby interpreter with an attacker-controlled RUBYLIB environment variable.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, ENISA, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
References	DLA-3957-1, DSA-5815-1

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
needrestart (PTS)	bookworm, bookworm (security)	3.6-4+deb12u3	fixed
	forky, sid, trixie	3.11-1	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Origin
needrestart	source	bullseye	3.5-4+deb11u4	DLA-3957-1
needrestart	source	bookworm	3.6-4+deb12u2	DSA-5815-1
needrestart	source	(unstable)	3.7-3.1

Notes

https://www.qualys.com/2024/11/19/needrestart/needrestart.txt
Fixed by: https://github.com/liske/needrestart/commit/b5f25f6ec6e7dd0c5be249e4e45de4ee9ffe594f (v3.8)