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Alpine Linux: CVE-2017-14159: Improper Initialization

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2017-14159: Improper Initialization

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
09/05/2017
Created
12/18/2019
Added
11/08/2019
Modified
10/02/2024

Description

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.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-openldap

References

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