Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in Gentoo net-im/jabberd2 Package

CVE-2017-18226 · LOW Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

The Gentoo net-im/jabberd2 package through 2.6.1 sets the ownership of /var/run/jabber to the jabber account, which might allow local users to kill arbitrary processes by leveraging access to this account for PID file modification before a root script executes a "kill -TERM `cat /var/run/jabber/filename.pid`" command.

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