CVE-2017-14102

Name	CVE-2017-14102
Description	MIMEDefang 2.80 and earlier creates a 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 PID file modification before a root script executes a "kill `cat /pathname`" command, as demonstrated by the init-script.in and mimedefang-init.in scripts.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
Debian Bugs	877363

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
mimedefang (PTS)	bullseye	2.84-4	fixed
	bookworm	3.3-1	fixed
	forky, sid, trixie	3.6-2	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
mimedefang	source	(unstable)	2.83-1			877363

Notes

[stretch] - mimedefang <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[jessie] - mimedefang <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[wheezy] - mimedefang <ignored> (Minor issue only exploitable if daemon is compromised in some other way)
http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/pipermail/mimedefang/2017-August/038077.html
http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/pipermail/mimedefang/2017-August/038085.html