Improper Initialization The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package openldap Open this link in a new tab
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.04% (9th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-UBUNTU1904-OPENLDAP-534131
- published 5 Sep 2017
- disclosed 5 Sep 2017
Introduced: 5 Sep 2017
CVE-2017-14159 Open this link in a new tabAmendment
The Ubuntu
security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:19.04
.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream openldap
package and not the openldap
package as distributed by Ubuntu
.
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.