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CVE-2017-11746
Published: Jul 30, 2017
Modified: Aug 5, 2024
PUBLISHED
Description
Tenshi 0.15 creates a tenshi.pid file after dropping privileges to a non-root account, which might allow local users to kill arbitrary processes by leveraging access to this non-root account for tenshi.pid modification before a root script executes a "kill `cat /pathname/tenshi.pid`" command.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
n/a | n/a | affected n/a |
References
GLSA-201804-18
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_GENTOO
https://github.com/inversepath/tenshi/issues/6
x_refsource_MISC
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