Vulnerability CVE-2021-3982


Published: 2022-04-29

Description:
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.

 References:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2024174
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/issues/4711

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