CVE-2017-20147 Information

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.

Reference

https://bugs.gentoo.org/631140