Main Vulnerability Database Vulnerabilities #VU67641

Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in net-analyzer/smokeping - CVE-2017-20147

Published: September 26, 2022

Vulnerability identifier: #VU67641

CSH Severity: Low

CVSS v4: 4.8 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]

CVE-ID: CVE-2017-20147

CWE-ID: CWE-264

Exploitation vector: Local access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a local user to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to the initscript in smokeping on Gentoo uses a PID file that is writable by the smokeping user. A local user can write an arbitrary number to the PID file and prevent smokeping from starting.

Affected software

net-analyzer/smokeping
Gentoo Linux

How to mitigate CVE-2017-20147

Install updates from vendor's website.

net-analyzer/smokeping - update to 2.7.3-r1

External References

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