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).

The remote Fedora 39 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2024-6015ee69f0 advisory.

    Rebase to fix CVEs

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Fedora 40 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2024-d2124788a8 advisory.

    Rebase to fix CVEs


Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Fedora 41 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2024-a9cf3dad4f advisory.

    Rebase to fix CVEs



Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 24.10 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-7117-1 advisory.

    Qualys discovered that needrestart passed unsanitized data to a library

    (libmodule-scandeps-perl) which expects safe input. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to     execute arbitrary code as root. (CVE-2024-11003)

    Qualys discovered that the library libmodule-scandeps-perl incorrectly

    parsed perl code. This could allow a local attacker to execute arbitrary shell commands. (CVE-2024-10224)

    Qualys discovered that needrestart incorrectly used the PYTHONPATH

    environment variable to spawn a new Python interpreter. A local attacker

    could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code as root.

    (CVE-2024-48990)

    Qualys discovered that needrestart incorrectly checked the path to the Python interpreter. A local     attacker could possibly use this issue to win a race condition and execute arbitrary code as root.
    (CVE-2024-48991)

    Qualys discovered that needrestart incorrectly used the RUBYLIB environment variable to spawn a new Ruby     interpreter. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code as root.
    (CVE-2024-48992)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
211781	Fedora 39 : needrestart (2024-6015ee69f0)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
211780	Fedora 40 : needrestart (2024-d2124788a8)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
211779	Fedora 41 : needrestart (2024-a9cf3dad4f)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
211621	Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 24.10 : needrestart and Module::ScanDeps vulnerabilities (USN-7117-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	high

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