Re: util-linux 2.29.2 fixes CVE-2017-2616

[Assaf Gordon <assafgordon () gmail com>]

Hello,

> On Feb 23, 2017, at 05:01, Marcus Meissner <meissner () suse de> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 10:40:54AM +0100, Hanno Böck wrote:
> > > util-linux 2.29.2 fixes CVE-2017-2616, a race condition which allowed
> > > local users to kill other processes.
>
> coreutils uses the same su.c codebase, so it is also affected.

GNU Coreutils stopped installing 'su' by default in 2007,
and completely removed 'su' (including the 'su.c' source file)
in 2012.

See:
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/commit/?id=928dd737

regards,
 - assaf