Security Advisory

CVE-2017-18284

7.1
HIGH

Vulnerability Description

The Gentoo app-backup/burp package before 2.1.32 sets the ownership of the PID file directory to the burp account, which might allow local users to kill arbitrary processes by leveraging access to this account for PID file modification before a root script sends a SIGKILL.
Published Date June 4, 2018
Official Source NIST NVD Advisory