SB2017073004 - Local denial of service in Tinyproxy
Published: July 30, 2017 Updated: August 20, 2023
Security Bulletin ID
SB2017073004
Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Local access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Race condition (CVE-ID: CVE-2017-11747)
The vulnerability allows a local user to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to a race condition when dropping privileges to a non-root account for the /run/tinyproxy/tinyproxy.pid file. A local user can exploit the race and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.