| Name | CVE-2017-18240 |
| Description | The Gentoo app-admin/collectd package before 5.7.2-r1 sets the ownership of PID file directory to the collectd account, which might allow local users to kill arbitrary processes by leveraging access to this account for PID file modification before a root script sends a SIGKILL (when the service is stopped). |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| collectd (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 5.4.1-6+deb8u1 | fixed |
| stretch | 5.7.1-1.1 | fixed |
| buster | 5.8.1-1.3 | fixed |
| bullseye | 5.12.0-7 | fixed |
| bookworm | 5.12.0-14 | fixed |
| sid | 5.12.0-17.1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| collectd | source | (unstable) | (not affected) | | | |
Notes
- collectd <not-affected> (Init scripts shipped by Debian are not affected)