CVE-2017-20147

published 2022-09-20

CVE-2017-20147: 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…

Priority P4 28 medium 6.5 CVSS 3.1

AV N AC L PR L UI N S U C N I N A H

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.

Affected

1 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
smokeping	smokeping	<= 2.7.3-r1	—

CVSS provenance

nvd v3.1 6.5 MEDIUM CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

osv 6.5 MEDIUM

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