MIMEDefang 2.80 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 the init-script.in and mimedefang-init.in scripts.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2017-09-01T05:00:00Z

Updated: 2024-09-17T02:37:01.538Z

Reserved: 2017-09-01T00:00:00Z

Link: CVE-2017-14102

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2017-09-01T05:29:00.250

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

Link: CVE-2017-14102

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