Oval Definition:oval:com.ubuntu.bionic:def:201714483000
Revision Date:2017-09-15Version:1
Title:CVE-2017-14483 on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (bionic) - medium.
Description:flower.initd in the Gentoo dev-python/flower package before 0.9.1-r1 for Celery Flower sets PID file ownership 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.
Family:unixClass:vulnerability
Status:Reference(s):CVE-2017-14483
Platform(s):Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
Product(s):
Definition Synopsis
  • Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (bionic) is installed.
  • AND NOT While related to the CVE in some way, the 'flower' package in bionic is not affected (note: 'code not present').
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