CVE-2017-11746

Published: 30 July 2017

Tenshi 0.15 creates a tenshi.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 tenshi.pid modification before a root script executes a "kill `cat /pathname/tenshi.pid`" command.

Priority

CVSS 3 base score: 7.5

Status

Package	Release	Status
tenshi Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	precise	Does not exist
	trusty	Does not exist (trusty was released [0.13-2+deb7u1~build0.14.04.1])
	upstream	Released (0.13-2+deb7u1)
	xenial	Released (0.13-2+deb7u1~build0.16.04.1)
	zesty	Released (0.13-2+deb7u1~build0.17.04.1)

References

https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-11746
https://github.com/inversepath/tenshi/issues/6
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Debian

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