{"id":"UBUNTU-CVE-2017-14102","details":"MIMEDefang 2.80 and earlier creates 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, as demonstrated by the init-script.in and mimedefang-init.in scripts.","modified":"2025-10-24T04:46:30Z","published":"2017-09-01T05:29:00Z","upstream":["CVE-2017-14102"],"references":[{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-14102"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/pipermail/mimedefang/2017-August/038077.html"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/pipermail/mimedefang/2017-August/038085.html"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-14102"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"mimedefang","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:16.04:LTS","purl":"pkg:deb/ubuntu/mimedefang@2.78-1ubuntu1.1?arch=source&distro=xenial"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}],"versions":["2.78-1","2.78-1build1","2.78-1ubuntu1","2.78-1ubuntu1.1"],"ecosystem_specific":{"binaries":[{"binary_version":"2.78-1ubuntu1.1","binary_name":"graphdefang"},{"binary_version":"2.78-1ubuntu1.1","binary_name":"mimedefang"}]},"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2017/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-14102.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.3","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},{"type":"Ubuntu","score":"medium"}]}