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DEBIAN-CVE-2018-6536
An issue was discovered in Icinga 2.x through 2.8.1. The daemon creates an icinga2.pid file after dropping privileges to a non-root account, which mig...
Original description
The description as published by the source.
An issue was discovered in Icinga 2.x through 2.8.1. The daemon creates an icinga2.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 icinga2.pid modification before a root script executes a "kill cat /pathname/icinga2.pid" command, as demonstrated by icinga2.init.d.cmake.
Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV
Affected packages
Debian:12
icinga2
[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2.8.4-1"}]}]
Debian:13
icinga2
[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2.8.4-1"}]}]
Debian:14
icinga2
[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2.8.4-1"}]}]
References
- advisory security-tracker.debian.org