| Package | needrestart |
|---|---|
| Version | 1.2-8+deb8u2 (jessie) |
| Related CVEs | CVE-2022-30688 |
Jakub Wilk discovered a local privilege escalation in needrestart, a utility to check which daemons need to be restarted after library upgrades. Regular expressions 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.
For Debian 8 jessie, these problems have been fixed in version 1.2-8+deb8u2.
We recommend that you upgrade your needrestart packages.
Further information about Extended LTS security advisories can be found in the dedicated section of our website.