CVE-2017-14159

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Summary

CVECVE-2017-14159
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2017-09-05 18:29:00 UTC
Updated2022-06-13 19:18:00 UTC
Descriptionslapd in OpenLDAP 2.4.45 and earlier creates a PID file after dropping privileges to a non-root account, which might allow local users to kill arbitrary processes by leveraging access to this non-root account for PID file modification before a root script executes a "kill `cat /pathname`" command, as demonstrated by openldap-initscript.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-665

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Openldap Openldap All All All All
Application Oracle Blockchain Platform All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Oracle Critical Patch Update Advisory - April 2022 MISC www.oracle.com
OpenLDAP ITS - Message 8703 MISC www.openldap.org Issue Tracking, Mailing List, Vendor Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 500477 Alpine Linux Security Update for openldap
  • 504235 Alpine Linux Security Update for openldap
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