SB2017022501 - Local denial of service in shadow-utils
Published: February 25, 2017
Security Bulletin ID
SB2017022501
Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Local access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Race condition (CVE-ID: CVE-2017-2616)
The vulnerability allows a local user to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to race condition within shadow-utils implementation. A local user can kill other processes on the system with root privileges.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.