Corrine Posted November 20, 2024 Posted November 20, 2024 From Bleeping Computer: Five local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerabilities have been discovered in the needrestart utility used by Ubuntu Linux, which was introduced over 10 years ago in version 21.04. The flaws were discovered by Qualys and are tracked as CVE-2024-48990, CVE-2024-48991, CVE-2024-48992, CVE-2024-10224, and CVE-2024-11003. They were introduced in needrestart version 0.8, released in April 2014, and fixed only yesterday, in version 3.8. Needrestart is a utility commonly used on Linux, including on Ubuntu Server, to identify services that require a restart after package updates, ensuring that those services run the most up-to-date versions of shared libraries. See the blog post for additional information, including what to do to prevent the vulnerabilities from being exploited. Quote
securitybreach Posted November 20, 2024 Posted November 20, 2024 Well at least it requires local access and at that point, all security is useless. Quote
sunrat Posted November 20, 2024 Posted November 20, 2024 Fixed in Debian a couple of days ago - https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2024/msg00229.html 2 Quote
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