Bug 2327359 (CVE-2024-48992) - CVE-2024-48992 needrestart: arbitrary code execution via RUBYLIB environment variable
Summary: CVE-2024-48992 needrestart: arbitrary code execution via RUBYLIB environment ...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2024-48992
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Product Security DevOps Team
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Depends On: 2327542 2327543 2327544 2327545 2327546
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2024-11-19 18:02 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2024-11-20 00:01 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2024-11-19 18:02:55 UTC 
Qualys discovered that needrestart, before version 3.8, allows local attackers to execute arbitrary code as root by tricking needrestart into running the Ruby interpreter with an attacker-controlled RUBYLIB environment variable.
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