Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2017-20147

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - 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...

CVE-2017-20147

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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 arbitrary PIDs to that file, the smokeping user can cause a denial of service to arbitrary PIDs when the service is stopped...

CVE-2017-20147

CVE-2017-20147 affects Smokeping on Gentoo (smokeping-2.7.3-r1). The initscript uses a PID file writable by the smokeping user, allowing an attacker to write arbitrary PIDs to that file and cause a denial of service to arbitrary PIDs when the service is stopped. The provided connected documents c...