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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2011-1784: Keepalived: Denial of service

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2011-1784: Keepalived: Denial of service

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P)
Published
05/20/2011
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/30/2017
Modified
05/28/2021

Description

The pidfile_write function in core/pidfile.c in keepalived 1.2.2 and earlier uses 0666 permissions for the (1) keepalived.pid, (2) checkers.pid, and (3) vrrp.pid files in /var/run/, which allows local users to kill arbitrary processes by writing a PID to one of these files.

Solution(s)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-sys-cluster-keepalived

References

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