Gentoo app-backup/burp package design vulnerability

The Gentoo app-backup/burp package is a network backup and recovery program from the Gentoo Foundation. A security vulnerability in the Gentoo app-backup/burp package prior to version 2.1.32 stems from the program setting ownership of the PID file directory to the burp account. A local attacker...

Arbitrary file deletion

The Gentoo app-backup/burp package before 2.1.32 sets the ownership of the PID file directory to the burp account, which might allow local users to kill arbitrary processes by leveraging access to this account for PID file modification before a root script sends a SIGKILL...

CVE-2017-18284

The Gentoo app-backup/burp package before 2.1.32 sets the ownership of the PID file directory to the burp account, which might allow local users to kill arbitrary processes by leveraging access to this account for PID file modification before a root script sends a SIGKILL...