CVE-2017-14159

Published: 05 September 2017

slapd in OpenLDAP 2.4.45 and earlier creates a 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 PID file modification before a root script executes a "kill `cat /pathname`" command, as demonstrated by openldap-initscript.

Priority

Low

CVSS 3 base score: 4.7

Status

Package Release Status
openldap
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian 		Upstream Needs triage

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) Not vulnerable

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver) Not vulnerable

Ubuntu 16.04 ESM (Xenial Xerus) Not vulnerable

Ubuntu 14.04 ESM (Trusty Tahr) Not vulnerable

Notes

AuthorNote
mdeslaur 
per upstream bug, upstream doesn't consider this to be a
security issue. Marking as not-affected.

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