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Debian Bookworm DSA-5815-1 critical: needrestart local access threats

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Calendar Grey November 19, 2024
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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-6543-1 addresses several vulnerabilities in the needrestart utility. Users are advised to upgrade to enhance security.
The Qualys Threat Research Unit discovered several local privilege escalation vulnerabilities in needrestart, a utility to check which daemons need to be restarted after library up...
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Summary

Details can be found in the Qualys advisory at
https://https://www.qualys.com/2024/11/19/needrestart/needrestart.txt

For the stable distribution (bookworm), these problems have been fixed in
version 3.6-4+deb12u2.

We recommend that you upgrade your needrestart packages.

For the detailed security status of needrestart please refer to its
security tracker page at:
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/needrestart

Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://www.debian.org/security/



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Package: needrestart
CVE ID: CVE-2024-11003 CVE-2024-48990 CVE-2024-48991 CVE-2024-48992

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