Detections
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CVE-2022-30688
high
Description
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.
References
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/05/17/9
https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5137
https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2022/msg00105.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/05/msg00024.html
https://github.com/liske/needrestart/releases/tag/v3.6
https://github.com/liske/needrestart/commit/e6e58136e1e3c92296e2e810cb8372a5fe0dbd30