The Gentoo app-admin/collectd package before 5.7.2-r1 sets the ownership of PID file directory to the collectd account, which might allow local users to kill arbitrary processes by leveraging access to this account for PID file modification before a root script sends a SIGKILL (when the service is stopped).
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2018-03-19T02:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-05T21:13:49.150Z

Reserved: 2018-03-18T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2017-18240

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2018-03-19T02:29:00.207

Modified: 2024-11-21T03:19:39.493

Link: CVE-2017-18240

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