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.
problem types: CWE-273
affected:
{
vendor: n/a
product: gnome-shell
versions:
version: gnome-shell downstream versions using CAP_SYS_NICE, status: affected
}