USN-7117-3: needrestart regression
First published: Thu Dec 05 2024(Updated: )
USN-7117-1 fixed vulnerabilities in needrestart. The update introduced a regression in needrestart. This update fixes the problem for LXC containers. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: Qualys discovered that needrestart passed unsanitized data to a library (libmodule-scandeps-perl) which expects safe input. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code as root. (CVE-2024-11003) Qualys discovered that the library libmodule-scandeps-perl incorrectly parsed perl code. This could allow a local attacker to execute arbitrary shell commands. (CVE-2024-10224) Qualys discovered that needrestart incorrectly used the PYTHONPATH environment variable to spawn a new Python interpreter. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code as root. (CVE-2024-48990) Qualys discovered that needrestart incorrectly checked the path to the Python interpreter. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to win a race condition and execute arbitrary code as root. (CVE-2024-48991) Qualys discovered that needrestart incorrectly used the RUBYLIB environment variable to spawn a new Ruby interpreter. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code as root. (CVE-2024-48992)
| Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
|---|---|---|
| All of | ||
| ubuntu/needrestart | <3.6-8ubuntu4.4 | 3.6-8ubuntu4.4 |
| Ubuntu Ubuntu | =24.10 | |
| All of | ||
| ubuntu/needrestart | <3.6-7ubuntu4.5 | 3.6-7ubuntu4.5 |
| Ubuntu Ubuntu | =24.04 | |
| All of | ||
| ubuntu/needrestart | <3.5-5ubuntu2.4 | 3.5-5ubuntu2.4 |
| Ubuntu Ubuntu | =22.04 | |
| All of | ||
| ubuntu/needrestart | <3.4-6ubuntu0.1+esm3 | 3.4-6ubuntu0.1+esm3 |
| Ubuntu Ubuntu | =20.04 | |
| All of | ||
| ubuntu/needrestart | <3.1-1ubuntu0.1+esm3 | 3.1-1ubuntu0.1+esm3 |
| Ubuntu Ubuntu | =18.04 | |
| All of | ||
| ubuntu/needrestart | <2.6-1ubuntu0.1~esm3 | 2.6-1ubuntu0.1~esm3 |
| Ubuntu Ubuntu | =16.04 |
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- version/ubuntu ubuntu/24.04
- version/ubuntu ubuntu/22.04
- version/ubuntu ubuntu/20.04
- version/ubuntu ubuntu/18.04
- version/ubuntu ubuntu/16.04