Bug#871321: tenshi: CVE-2017-11746: should create its PID file before dropping privileges
Followup-For: Bug #871321 Hi, I'm rising the severity to serious because tenshi violates version ordering constraints since this bug was fixed in wheezy-security: tenshi | 0.13-2| wheezy | source, all tenshi | 0.13-2| stretch | source, all tenshi | 0.13-2| buster | source, all tenshi | 0.13-2| sid | source, all tenshi | 0.13-2+deb7u1 | wheezy-security | source, all Andreas
Bug#871321: tenshi: CVE-2017-11746: should create its PID file before dropping privileges
On Mon, Aug 07, 2017 at 05:54:07PM +0200, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote: > Source: tenshi > Version: 0.13-2 > Severity: normal > Tags: upstream patch security > Forwarded: https://github.com/inversepath/tenshi/issues/6 > > Hi, > > the following vulnerability was published for tenshi. > > CVE-2017-11746[0]: > | Tenshi 0.15 creates a tenshi.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 tenshi.pid > | modification before a root script executes a "kill `cat > | /pathname/tenshi.pid`" command. Please provide a systemd unit, so that we can avoid using a PID file altogether. Cheers, Moritz
Bug#871321: tenshi: CVE-2017-11746: should create its PID file before dropping privileges
Source: tenshi Version: 0.13-2 Severity: normal Tags: upstream patch security Forwarded: https://github.com/inversepath/tenshi/issues/6 Hi, the following vulnerability was published for tenshi. CVE-2017-11746[0]: | Tenshi 0.15 creates a tenshi.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 tenshi.pid | modification before a root script executes a "kill `cat | /pathname/tenshi.pid`" command. If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry. For further information see: [0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-11746 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-11746 [1] https://github.com/inversepath/tenshi/issues/6 [2] https://github.com/inversepath/tenshi/commit/d0e7f28c13ffbd5888b31d6532c2faf78f10f176 Regards, Salvatore