UnrealIRCd 4.0.13 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. NOTE: the vendor indicates that there is no common or recommended scenario in which a root script would execute this kill command.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2017-08-23T21:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-05T19:05:18.955Z

Reserved: 2017-08-23T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2017-13649

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2017-08-23T21:29:00.280

Modified: 2019-10-03T00:03:26.223

Link: CVE-2017-13649

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