CVE-2017-20147

Publication date

2022-09-20 17:00:51

Family

mitre

State

PUBLISHED

Description

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.