CVE-2017-11746 | BDVDB-2026-88241 Detail

Description#

Tenshi 0.15 creates a tenshi.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 tenshi.pid modification before a root script executes a "kill `cat /pathname/tenshi.pid`" command.

Impact#

No impact statement in the source data.

Weaknesses#

No weakness recorded in the source data.

References#

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201804-18
https://github.com/inversepath/tenshi/issues/6

Exploit#

No public exploit known

History#

Version 12017-07-30Record published in the CVE List.
Version 22024-08-05Most recent update recorded in the CVE List.