The Gentoo app-admin/collectd package before 5.7.2-r1 sets the ownership of PID file directory to the collectd 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 (when the service is stopped).
                
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 MITRE
                        MITRE
                    Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: 2018-03-19T02:00:00
Updated: 2024-08-05T21:13:49.150Z
Reserved: 2018-03-18T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2017-18240
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 NVD
                        NVD
                    Status : Modified
Published: 2018-03-19T02:29:00.207
Modified: 2024-11-21T03:19:39.493
Link: CVE-2017-18240
 Redhat
                        Redhat
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