Improper Initialization The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package openldap Open this link in a new tab

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:19.10.

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.

• http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2017-14159
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-14159
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-14159
• http://www.openldap.org/its/index.cgi?findid=8703
• https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2022.html