Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2024-48992): needrestart and Module::ScanDeps vulnerabilities
4
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
11/19/2024
11/21/2024
11/20/2024
12/09/2024
Description
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.
Solution(s)
- ubuntu-pro-upgrade-libmodule-scandeps-perl
- ubuntu-pro-upgrade-needrestart
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