Improper Initialization The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package openldap (opens in a new tab)
Threat Intelligence
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1604-OPENLDAP-304605
- published5 Sept 2017
- disclosed5 Sept 2017
Introduced: 5 Sep 2017
CVE-2017-14159 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:16.04.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream openldap package and not the openldap package as distributed by Ubuntu.
slapd in OpenLDAP 2.4.45 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 openldap-initscript.