APC UPS daemon, apcupsd, saves its process ID in a world-writable file, which allows local users to kill an arbitrary process by specifying the target process ID in the apcupsd.pid file.
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MITRE
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: 2001-05-07T04:00:00
Updated: 2024-08-08T04:06:54.898Z
Reserved: 2001-02-01T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2001-0040
Vulnrichment
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NVD
Status : Modified
Published: 2001-02-16T05:00:00.000
Modified: 2024-11-20T23:34:27.437
Link: CVE-2001-0040
Redhat
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