Oval Definition:oval:com.ubuntu.bionic:def:201711747000
Revision Date:2017-07-30Version:1
Title:CVE-2017-11747 on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (bionic) - medium.
Description: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.
Family:unixClass:vulnerability
Status:Reference(s):CVE-2017-11747
Platform(s):Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
Product(s):
Definition Synopsis
  • Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (bionic) is installed.
  • AND The 'tinyproxy' package in bionic is affected and needs fixing.
  • BACK