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Fedora 23: NRPE Update – Critical Remote Execution Fixes

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Calendar Grey September 18, 2015
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Fedora Upgrade Alert regarding nrpe emphasizes crucial enhancements and configurations for improved oversight and service efficiency.
Use %configure macro as it deals with config.sub/guess and various flags properly ---- nrpe-2.15-6.el7 - Fix spec file for missing /usr/share/libtool/config/config.guess nrpe-2.1...

Summary

Nrpe is a system daemon that will execute various Nagios plugins

locally on behalf of a remote (monitoring) host that uses the

check_nrpe plugin. Various plugins that can be executed by the

daemon are available at:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/nagios-4-debian-plugins/

This package provides the core agent.

Update Information:

Use %configure macro as it deals with config.sub/guess and various flags properly ---- nrpe-2.15-6.el7 - Fix spec file for missing /usr/share/libtool/config/config.guess nrpe-2.15-6.el6 - Fix spec file for missing /usr/share/libtool/config/config.guess nrpe-2.15-6.fc23 - Fix spec file for missing /usr/share/libtool/config/config.guess nrpe-2.15-6.fc22 - Fix spec file for missing /usr/share/libtool/config/config.guess nrpe-2.15-6.fc21 - Fix spec file for missing /usr/share/libtool/config/config.guess

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Topics Covered

security advisory Fedora remote execution plugin update nrpe

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1239738 - nrpe: FTBFS in rawhide https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1239738 [ 2 ] Bug #1089880 - CVE-2014-2913 nrpe: remote command execution when command arguments are enabled [epel-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1089880

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update nrpe' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .

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Name: nrpe
Product: Fedora 23
Version: 2.15
Release: 7.fc23
URL: https://www.nagios.org/
Summary: Host/service/network monitoring agent for Nagios

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Topics Covered

security advisory Fedora remote execution plugin update nrpe

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