vulnerability

Gentoo Linux: CVE-2017-20147: Smokeping: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
2022-09-20
Added
2022-09-26
Modified
2025-01-28

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

gentoo-linux-upgrade-net-analyzer-smokeping
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