CVE-2017-18226

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
12/03/2018
Last modified:
03/10/2019

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.

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:jabberd2:jabberd2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 2.6.1 (including)
cpe:2.3:o:gentoo:linux:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*


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