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 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo) |
Not vulnerable
|
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| Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla) |
Not vulnerable
|
|
| Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) |
Not vulnerable
|
|
| Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver) |
Not vulnerable
|
|
| Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) |
Not vulnerable
|
|
| Ubuntu 14.04 ESM (Trusty Tahr) |
Not vulnerable
|
Notes
| Author | Note |
|---|---|
| mdeslaur | per upstream bug, upstream doesn't consider this to be a security issue. Marking as not-affected. |