needrestart 0.8 through 3.5 before 3.6 is prone to local...
High severity
Unreviewed
Published
May 18, 2022
to the GitHub Advisory Database
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Updated Jan 28, 2023
Description
Published by the National Vulnerability Database
May 17, 2022
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database
May 18, 2022
Last updated
Jan 28, 2023
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.
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