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Gentoo: GLSA-201702-26 High: Nagios Privilege Escalation Threat

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Calendar Grey February 21, 2017
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
Critical vulnerabilities discovered in Nagios as outlined in Gentoo GLSA 201702-26. Immediate response recommended. Act swiftly to mitigate risks.
Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Nagios, the worst of which could lead to privilege escalation.

Summary

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Nagios. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

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Topics Covered

security advisory high severity gentoo privilege escalation nagios system threat

Resolution

All Nagios users should upgrade to the latest version: # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-analyzer/nagios-core-4.2.4"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2008-4796 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2008-4796 [ 2 ] CVE-2008-7313 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2008-7313 [ 3 ] CVE-2016-8641 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-8641 [ 4 ] CVE-2016-9565 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-9565 [ 5 ] CVE-2016-9566 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-9566

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-26
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Concerns

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users' machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.

Severity: High
Title: Nagios: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date: February 21, 2017
Bugs: #595194, #598104, #600864, #602216
ID: 201702-26

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Topics Covered

security advisory high severity gentoo privilege escalation nagios system threat

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Nagios, the worst of which could lead to privilege escalation.

Background

Nagios is an open source host, service and network monitoring program.

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Affected Packages

------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 net-analyzer/nagios-core < 4.2.4 >= 4.2.4

Impact

===== A local attacker, who either is already Nagios's system user or belongs to Nagios's group, could potentially escalate privileges. In addition, a remote attacker could read or write to arbitrary files by spoofing a crafted response from the Nagios RSS feed server.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

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