Improper Initialization The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package kannel (opens in a new tab)
Threat Intelligence
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN11-KANNEL-520816
- published20 Sept 2017
- disclosed20 Sept 2017
Introduced: 20 Sep 2017
CVE-2017-14609 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Debian security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Debian:11.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kannel package and not the kannel package as distributed by Debian.
The server daemons in Kannel 1.5.0 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, as demonstrated by bearerbox.