CVE-2021-3982 (GCVE-0-2021-3982)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2022-04-29 00:00
Modified
2024-08-03 17:09
Severity ?
CWE
Summary
Linux distributions using CAP_SYS_NICE for gnome-shell may be exposed to a privilege escalation issue. An attacker, with low privilege permissions, may take advantage of the way CAP_SYS_NICE is currently implemented and eventually load code to increase its process scheduler priority leading to possible DoS of other services running in the same machine.
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a gnome-shell Version: gnome-shell downstream versions using CAP_SYS_NICE
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