CVE-2022-30688

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 ancho...

Original description

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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.

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) NVD OSV

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2022-30688 needrestart Fixed in: 3.5-4+deb11u1

References

advisory github.com
advisory nvd.nist.gov
advisory debian.org
patch github.com
web seclists.org
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web lists.debian.org
web openwall.com
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