Description
The Gentoo net-im/jabberd2 package through 2.6.1 sets the ownership of /var/run/jabber to the jabber account, which might allow local users to kill arbitrary processes by leveraging access to this account for PID file modification before a root script executes a "kill -TERM `cat /var/run/jabber/filename.pid`" command.
Published: 2018-03-12
Score: 5.5 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2017-9358 The Gentoo net-im/jabberd2 package through 2.6.1 sets the ownership of /var/run/jabber to the jabber account, which might allow local users to kill arbitrary processes by leveraging access to this account for PID file modification before a root script executes a "kill -TERM `cat /var/run/jabber/filename.pid`" command.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-05T21:13:49.150Z

Reserved: 2018-03-11T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2017-18226

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2018-03-12T04:29:00.273

Modified: 2024-11-21T03:19:37.097

Link: CVE-2017-18226

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2017-18226 - Bugzilla

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