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).
References
Link Resource
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103469 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
https://bugs.gentoo.org/628540 Issue Tracking Vendor Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201803-10 Vendor Advisory
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cve-icon MITRE Information

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

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

Updated: 2018-03-22T09:57:01

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


Link: CVE-2017-18240

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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Analyzed

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

Modified: 2018-04-18T16:14:12.413


Link: CVE-2017-18240

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