CVE-2017-2616: Debian Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 4.7. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A race condition was found in util-linux before 2.32.1 in the way su handled the management of child processes. A local authenticated attacker could use this flaw to kill other processes with root privileges under specific conditions.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 8.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop: version 6.0 only; version 7.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server: version 6.0 only; version 7.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Aus: version 7.3 only; version 7.4 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Eus: version 7.3 only; version 7.4 only; version 7.5 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation: version 6.0 only; version 7.0 only
• Util-Linux Project Util-Linux: before 2.32.1 (fixed in 2.32.1)

Published 2018-07-27. Last modified 2026-06-17.