Detections
Analytics
CVE-2017-14159
medium
Description
slapd in OpenLDAP 2.4.45 and earlier creates a 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 PID file modification before a root script executes a "kill `cat /pathname`" command, as demonstrated by openldap-initscript.
References
https://github.com/nix-community/vulnix
https://github.com/flyingcircusio/vulnix