CVE-2017-14610

Name	CVE-2017-14610
Description	bareos-dir, bareos-fd, and bareos-sd in bareos-core in Bareos 16.2.6 and earlier create 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.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
Debian Bugs	877334

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
bareos (PTS)	jessie	14.2.1+20141017gitc6c5b56-3+deb8u3	vulnerable
	stretch	16.2.4-3+deb9u2	vulnerable
	buster	16.2.6-5	vulnerable

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
bareos	source	(unstable)	(unfixed)	low		877334

Notes

[buster] - bareos <ignored> (Minor issue)
[stretch] - bareos <ignored> (Minor issue)
[jessie] - bareos <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
https://bugs.bareos.org/view.php?id=847