Description
needrestart 0.8 through 3.5 before 3.6 is prone to local privilege escalation. Regexes 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.
Affected products
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
n/a n/a
n/aaffected
References
- https://github.com/liske/needrestart/releases/tag/v3.6 ↗
- https://github.com/liske/needrestart/commit/e6e58136e1e3c92296e2e810cb8372a5fe0dbd30 ↗
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2022/msg00105.html ↗
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/05/17/9 ↗
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/05/17/9 ↗
- https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5137 ↗
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/05/msg00024.html ↗
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2024/Nov/17 ↗
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2024/Nov/15 ↗