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        "cveId": "CVE-2021-3982",
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        "dateUpdated": "2024-08-03T17:09:09.635Z",
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                    "lang": "en",
                    "value": "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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                    "url": "https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/issues/2284"
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                "title": "CVE Program Container",
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                        "url": "https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/issues/2284",
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