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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2017-11746: tenshi: Privilege escalation

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2017-11746: tenshi: Privilege escalation

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
07/30/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
04/23/2018
Modified
04/23/2018

Description

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.

Solution(s)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-app-admin-tenshi

References

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