UBUNTU-CVE-2017-14681

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Source
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-14681
Import Source
https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2017/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-14681.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-14681
Upstream
Published
2017-09-21T23:29:00Z
Modified
2025-10-24T04:46:31Z
Severity
  • 5.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
  • Ubuntu - medium
Summary
[none]
Details

The daemon in P3Scan 3.0_rc1 and earlier creates a p3scan.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 p3scan.pid modification before a root script executes a "kill cat /pathname/p3scan.pid" command, as demonstrated by etc/init.d/p3scan.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:16.04:LTS / p3scan

Package

Name
p3scan
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/p3scan@2:2.3.2-8.1?arch=source&distro=xenial

Affected ranges

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

Affected versions

2:2.*
2:2.3.2-8.1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_version": "2:2.3.2-8.1",
            "binary_name": "p3scan"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source 
"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2017/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-14681.json"