UBUNTU-CVE-2017-14610

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Source
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-14610
Import Source
https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2017/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-14610.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-14610
Upstream
Published
2017-09-20T18:29:00Z
Modified
2025-10-24T04:46:31Z
Severity
  • 7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
  • Ubuntu - medium
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:16.04:LTS / bareos

Package

Name
bareos
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/bareos@14.2.6-3?arch=source&distro=xenial

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

14.*
14.2.5-1
14.2.5-2
14.2.6-1
14.2.6-2
14.2.6-2build1
14.2.6-3

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "bareos",
            "binary_version": "14.2.6-3"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "bareos-bat",
            "binary_version": "14.2.6-3"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "bareos-bconsole",
            "binary_version": "14.2.6-3"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "bareos-client",
            "binary_version": "14.2.6-3"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "bareos-common",
            "binary_version": "14.2.6-3"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "bareos-database-common",
            "binary_version": "14.2.6-3"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "bareos-database-mysql",
            "binary_version": "14.2.6-3"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "bareos-database-postgresql",
            "binary_version": "14.2.6-3"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "bareos-database-sqlite3",
            "binary_version": "14.2.6-3"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "bareos-database-tools",
            "binary_version": "14.2.6-3"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "bareos-devel",
            "binary_version": "14.2.6-3"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "bareos-director",
            "binary_version": "14.2.6-3"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "bareos-director-python-plugin",
            "binary_version": "14.2.6-3"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "bareos-filedaemon",
            "binary_version": "14.2.6-3"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "bareos-filedaemon-python-plugin",
            "binary_version": "14.2.6-3"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "bareos-storage",
            "binary_version": "14.2.6-3"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "bareos-storage-fifo",
            "binary_version": "14.2.6-3"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "bareos-storage-python-plugin",
            "binary_version": "14.2.6-3"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "bareos-storage-tape",
            "binary_version": "14.2.6-3"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "bareos-tools",
            "binary_version": "14.2.6-3"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "bareos-traymonitor",
            "binary_version": "14.2.6-3"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source 
"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2017/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-14610.json"