CVE-2017-18240

Name	CVE-2017-18240
Description	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).
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
collectd (PTS)	bullseye	5.12.0-7	fixed
	bookworm	5.12.0-14	fixed
	sid, trixie	5.12.0-22	fixed

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

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
collectd	source	(unstable)	(not affected)

- collectd <not-affected> (Init scripts shipped by Debian are not affected)