CVE-2017-14159

slapd in OpenLDAP 2.4.45 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 openldap-initscript.

As per upstream this bug can be used only when additional major flaws are found in the slapd binary like the ones caused by heap-based buffer overflows etc. Based on this argument, Red Hat Product Security does not consider this to be a security flaw.

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