UBUNTU-CVE-2018-6536
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Summary:
Details: An issue was discovered in Icinga 2.x through 2.8.1. The daemon creates an icinga2.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 icinga2.pid modification before a root script executes a "kill `cat /pathname/icinga2.pid`" command, as demonstrated by icinga2.init.d.cmake.
References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-6536, https://github.com/Icinga/icinga2/issues/5991, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-6536
Affected packages
Package
Name: icinga2
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/icinga2?arch=source&distro=xenial
Affected ranges
Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events:
Introduced- 0
Fixed -None
Affected versions
2.3.8-1build1
2.3.11-1
Common Vulnerability Scoring System
Attack Vector
Network
Adjacent
Local
Physical
Privileges Required
None
Low
High
User Interaction
None
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Changed
Confidentiality
None
Low
High
Integrity
None
Low
High
Availability
None
Low
High
