DSA-5137-1 needrestart -- needrestartID: oval:org.secpod.oval:def:88353 | Date: (C)2023-03-28 (M)2023-08-16 |
Class: PATCH | Family: unix |
Jakub Wilk discovered a local privilege escalation in needrestart, a utility to check which daemons need to be restarted after library upgrades. Regular expressions to detect the Perl, Python, and Ruby interpreters are not anchored, allowing a local user to escalate privileges when needrestart tries to detect if interpreters are using old source files.
Platform: |
Linux Mint 4 |
Linux Mint 5 |