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Alpine Linux: CVE-2017-20147: Vulnerability in Smokeping

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2017-20147: Vulnerability in Smokeping

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
09/20/2022
Created
03/22/2024
Added
03/21/2024
Modified
03/22/2024

Description

In the ebuild package through smokeping-2.7.3-r1 for SmokePing on Gentoo, the initscript uses a PID file that is writable by the smokeping user. By writing arbitrary PIDs to that file, the smokeping user can cause a denial of service to arbitrary PIDs when the service is stopped.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-smokeping

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