Medium severity5.5OSV Advisory· Published Mar 12, 2018· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2017-18226
CVE-2017-18226
Description
The Gentoo net-im/jabberd2 package through 2.6.1 sets the ownership of /var/run/jabber to the jabber account, which might allow local users to kill arbitrary processes by leveraging access to this account for PID file modification before a root script executes a "kill -TERM cat /var/run/jabber/filename.pid" command.
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Affected products
2- Range: jabberd-2.6.1
- Range: <=2.6.1
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
1- bugs.gentoo.org/631068nvdIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
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