cve/2017/CVE-2017-14159.md

### [CVE-2017-14159](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-14159)
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### Description

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.

### POC

#### Reference
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2022.html

#### Github
- https://github.com/andir/nixos-issue-db-example
- https://github.com/jparrill/preview-grafeas
- https://github.com/testing-felickz/docker-scout-demo