Improper Privilege Management The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package tinyproxy  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1904-TINYPROXY-661317
  • published30 Jul 2017
  • disclosed30 Jul 2017

Introduced: 30 Jul 2017

CVE-2017-11747  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-269  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:19.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream tinyproxy package and not the tinyproxy package as distributed by Ubuntu.

main.c in Tinyproxy 1.8.4 and earlier creates a /run/tinyproxy/tinyproxy.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 tinyproxy.pid modification before a root script executes a "kill cat /run/tinyproxy/tinyproxy.pid" command.