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. https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/05/17/9 https://github.com/liske/needrestart/releases/tag/v3.6 https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2022/msg00105.html https://github.com/liske/needrestart/commit/e6e58136e1e3c92296e2e810cb8372a5fe0dbd30 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/05/17/9
Created needrestart tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: epel-7 [bug 2087660] Affects: epel-8 [bug 2087661] Affects: fedora-34 [bug 2087662] Affects: fedora-35 [bug 2087659]
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