CVE-2017-20147

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Summary

CVECVE-2017-20147
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2022-09-20 18:15:00 UTC
Updated2022-10-01 02:33:00 UTC
DescriptionIn the ebuild package through smokeping-2.7.3-r1 for SmokePing on Gentoo, the initscript uses a PID file that is writable by the smokeping user. By writing arbitrary PIDs to that file, the smokeping user can cause a denial of service to arbitrary PIDs when the service is stopped.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-noinfo

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Smokeping Smokeping All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Smokeping: Multiple vulnerabilities (GLSA 202209-08) — Gentoo security GENTOO security.gentoo.org
631140 – (CVE-2017-20147) net-analyzer/smokeping: privilege escalation via PID file manipulation MISC bugs.gentoo.org
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