GSD-2001-0040

Vulnerability from gsd - Updated: 2023-12-13 01:19
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APC UPS daemon, apcupsd, saves its process ID in a world-writable file, which allows local users to kill an arbitrary process by specifying the target process ID in the apcupsd.pid file.
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CVE-2001-0040
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