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Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2017 07:56:51 -0500
From: Assaf Gordon <assafgordon@...il.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: util-linux 2.29.2 fixes CVE-2017-2616
Hello,
> On Feb 23, 2017, at 05:01, Marcus Meissner <meissner@...e.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
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