CVE-2017-18240

Medium

Description

The Gentoo app-admin/collectd package before 5.7.2-r1 sets the ownership of PID file directory to the collectd account, which might allow local users to kill arbitrary processes by leveraging access to this account for PID file modification before a root script sends a SIGKILL (when the service is stopped).

SeverityMedium

CVSS5.5

Exploit probability—

ProductCollectd

PublishedMar 19, 2018

First seenMar 19, 2018

How to fix

Vendor advisories

security.gentoo.org/glsa/201803-10

Affected products

Product	Affected versions	Fixed in
collectd collectd	v ≤ 5.7.2, 5.7.2	—

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