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CVE-2017-20147

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2022-09-20 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-377

Description

In the ebuild package through smokeping-2.7.3-r1 for SmokePing on Gentoo, the initscript uses a PID file that is writable by the smokeping user. By writing arbitrary PIDs to that file, the smokeping user can cause a denial of service to arbitrary PIDs when the service is stopped.

Affected products

• smokeping: through 2.7.3-r1

References

• https://bugs.gentoo.org/631140
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202209-08
• https://bugs.gentoo.org/631140
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202209-08

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