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.
Affected Software
| Name | Vendor | Start Version | End Version |
|---|---|---|---|
| Needrestart | Needrestart_project | 0.8 (including) | 3.6 (excluding) |
| Needrestart | Ubuntu | bionic | * |
| Needrestart | Ubuntu | esm-apps/bionic | * |
| Needrestart | Ubuntu | esm-apps/focal | * |
| Needrestart | Ubuntu | esm-apps/xenial | * |
| Needrestart | Ubuntu | focal | * |
| Needrestart | Ubuntu | impish | * |
| Needrestart | Ubuntu | jammy | * |
| Needrestart | Ubuntu | upstream | * |
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/05/17/9
- https://github.com/liske/needrestart/commit/e6e58136e1e3c92296e2e810cb8372a5fe0dbd30
- https://github.com/liske/needrestart/releases/tag/v3.6
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/05/msg00024.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2022/msg00105.html
- https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5137
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/05/17/9
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2024/Nov/15
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2024/Nov/17
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/05/17/9
- https://github.com/liske/needrestart/commit/e6e58136e1e3c92296e2e810cb8372a5fe0dbd30
- https://github.com/liske/needrestart/releases/tag/v3.6
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/05/msg00024.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2022/msg00105.html
- https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5137
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/05/17/9