Overview
- Description
- Qualys discovered that needrestart, before version 3.8, passes unsanitized data to a library (Modules::ScanDeps) which expects safe input. This could allow a local attacker to execute arbitrary shell commands. Please see the related CVE-2024-10224 in Modules::ScanDeps.
- Source
- security@ubuntu.com
- NVD status
- Awaiting Analysis
Risk scores
CVSS 3.1
- Type
- Secondary
- Base score
- 7.8
- Impact score
- 5.9
- Exploitability score
- 1.8
- Vector string
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Severity
- HIGH
Weaknesses
- 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0
- CWE-78
Social media
Hype score is a measure of social media activity compared against trending CVEs from the past 12 months. Max score 100.
- Hype score
3
Canonical’s security team has released updates for the needrestart and libmodule-scandeps-perl packages for all Ubuntu releases. The updates remediate CVE-2024-10224, CVE-2024-11003, CVE-2024-48990, CVE-2024-48991 and CVE-2024-48992. Learn more on the blog https://t.co/vjtSFyCpCK
@ubuntu
21 Nov 2024
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Great catch(es) with CVE-2024-48990, CVE-2024-48991, CVE-2024-48992, CVE-2024-10224, and CVE-2024-11003 by @qualys in “needrestart” v0.8 in Ubuntu Linux 21.04. Needrestart v3.8 patches all five. Released yesterday. Full text of the Qualys advisory at https://t.co/Jl3HFVKjQw
@Sujeet
20 Nov 2024
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CVE-2024-11003 Qualys discovered that needrestart, before version 3.8, passes unsanitized data to a library (Modules::ScanDeps) which expects safe input. This could allow a local at… https://t.co/YBz0o9g7jw
@CVEnew
20 Nov 2024
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Was going to let that just be a tweet but it turned into a full blown blogpost - Servers NeedRestart - The Problem with CVE-2024-48990, CVE-2024-48991, CVE-2024-48992, CVE-2024-10224, and CVE-2024-11003 https://t.co/TBrlK4XeBb
@nanovms
20 Nov 2024
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CVE-2024-48990 CVE-2024-48991 CVE-2024-48992 CVE-2024-10224 and CVE-2024-11003 - all probably affecting your ubuntu servers - this is a perfect example of why you should be using unikernels - WTF would you allow some perl to run as root if you yourself don't code in perl? https:
@nanovms
19 Nov 2024
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