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Fedora 32: nrpe Update FEDORA-2020-d436ed655f Critical: Command Injection

fedora
Calendar Grey April 24, 2020
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Mitigates command injection and buffer overflow weaknesses identified in NRPE for Fedora 32 to bolster security.
New upstream version, fixes CVEs

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.

New upstream version, fixes CVEs

* Sun Apr 5 2020 Martin Jackson - 4.0.2-2

- New upstream version

- Update patch for indlude_dir

- Fix BZ#1816816 - CVE-2020-6582 nrpe: heap-based buffer overflow due to a wrong integer type conversion

- Fix BZ#1816805 - CVE-2020-6581 nrpe: insufficient filtering and incorrect parsing of the configuration file may lead to command injection

[ 1 ] Bug #1816805 - CVE-2020-6581 nrpe: insufficient filtering and incorrect parsing of the configuration file may lead to command injection [epel-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1816805

[ 2 ] Bug #1816816 - CVE-2020-6582 nrpe: heap-based buffer overflow due to a wrong integer type conversion [epel-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1816816

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2020-d436ed655f' at the command

line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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Product: Fedora 32
Version: 4.0.2
Release: 2.fc32
Summary: Host/service/network monitoring agent for Nagios

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