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veracodeVeracode Vulnerability DatabaseVERACODE:12333
HistoryJan 15, 2019 - 9:15 a.m.

Denial Of Service (DoS)

2019-01-1509:15:55
Veracode Vulnerability Database
sca.analysiscenter.veracode.com
9

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

5.1%

coreutils is vulnerable to denial of service (DoS) attacks. The vulnerability exists as a race condition was found in util-linux before 2.32.1 in the way su handled the management of child processes. A local authenticated attacker could use this flaw to kill other processes with root privileges under specific conditions.