DEBIAN-CVE-2022-30688

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Source
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2022-30688
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2022-30688.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/DEBIAN-CVE-2022-30688
Upstream
Published
2022-05-17T19:15:08Z
Modified
2025-09-30T05:17:05.314774Z
Severity
  • 7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

needrestart 0.8 through 3.5 before 3.6 is prone to local privilege escalation. Regexes to detect the Perl, Python, and Ruby interpreters are not anchored, allowing a local user to escalate privileges when needrestart tries to detect if interpreters are using old source files.

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+deb11u1

Affected versions

3.*

3.5-4

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
3.6-1

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
3.6-1

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
3.6-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}