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Posted on 19 November 2024
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Debian Security Advisory DSA-5815-1 security@debian.org
https://www.debian.org/security/ Salvatore Bonaccorso
November 19, 2024 https://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package : needrestart
CVE ID : CVE-2024-11003 CVE-2024-48990 CVE-2024-48991 CVE-2024-48992
The Qualys Threat Research Unit discovered several local privilege
escalation vulnerabilities in needrestart, a utility to check which
daemons need to be restarted after library upgrades. A local attacker
can execute arbitrary code as root by tricking needrestart into running
the Python interpreter with an attacker-controlled PYTHONPATH
environment variable (CVE-2024-48990) or running the Ruby interpreter
with an attacker-controlled RUBYLIB environment variable
(CVE-2024-48992). Additionally a local attacker can trick needrestart
into running a fake Python interpreter (CVE-2024-48991) or cause
needrestart to call the Perl module Module::ScanDeps with
attacker-controlled files (CVE-2024-11003).
Details can be found in the Qualys advisory at
https://www.qualys.com/2024/11/19/needrestart/needrestart.txt
For the stable distribution (bookworm), these problems have been fixed in
version 3.6-4+deb12u2.
We recommend that you upgrade your needrestart packages.
For the detailed security status of needrestart please refer to its
security tracker page at:
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/needrestart
Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://www.debian.org/security/
Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
