DEBIAN-CVE-2024-48991

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https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/DEBIAN-CVE-2024-48991
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Published
2024-11-19T18:15:21Z
Modified
2025-09-19T07:34:07.404101Z
Summary
[none]
Details

Qualys discovered that needrestart, before version 3.8, allows local attackers to execute arbitrary code as root by winning a race condition and tricking needrestart into running their own, fake Python interpreter (instead of the system's real Python interpreter). The initial security fix (6ce6136) introduced a regression which was subsequently resolved (42af5d3).

References

Affected packages

Debian:11 / needrestart

Package

Name
needrestart
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/needrestart?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
3.5-4+deb11u4

Affected versions

3.*

3.5-4
3.5-4+deb11u1
3.5-4+deb11u2
3.5-4+deb11u3

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:12 / needrestart

Package

Name
needrestart
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/needrestart?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
3.6-4+deb12u2

Affected versions

3.*

3.6-4
3.6-4+deb12u1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:13 / needrestart

Package

Name
needrestart
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/needrestart?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
3.7-3.1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:14 / needrestart

Package

Name
needrestart
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/needrestart?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
3.7-3.1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}