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CVE-2017-18226
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2018-03-12T04:29:00.273 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:12:26.077

Summary

The Gentoo net-im/jabberd2 package through 2.6.1 sets the ownership of /var/run/jabber to the jabber account, which might allow local users to kill arbitrary processes by leveraging access to this account for PID file modification before a root script executes a "kill -TERM `cat /var/run/jabber/filename.pid`" command.

Affected products

jabberd2 — jabberd2

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References

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