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Gentoo: GLSA-202007-31 High Severity: Icinga Root Privilege Escalation

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Calendar Grey July 26, 2020
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
Icinga configuration files show vulnerable access rights that could allow privilege escalation; it is recommended that Gentoo users remove Icinga from their systems.
Icinga installs files with insecure permissions allowing root privilege escalation.

Summary

It was discovered that Icinga's installed files have insecure permissions, possibly allowing root privilege escalation.

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Topics Covered

security advisory high severity gentoo software issue root privilege escalation icinga

Resolution

Gentoo has discontinued support for Icinga. We recommend that usersunmerge Icinga: # emerge --unmerge "net-analyzer/icinga"
NOTE: The Gentoo developer(s) maintaining Icinga have discontinued support at this time. It may be possible that a new Gentoo developer will update Icinga at a later date. The natural replacement is Icinga 2 (net-analyzer/icinga2).

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2017-16882 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-16882

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-31
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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: Icinga: Root privilege escalation
Date: July 27, 2020
Bugs: #638186
ID: 202007-31

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Topics Covered

security advisory high severity gentoo software issue root privilege escalation icinga

Synopsis

Icinga installs files with insecure permissions allowing root privilege escalation.

Background

Icinga is an open source computer system and network monitoring application. It was originally created as a fork of the Nagios system monitoring application in 2009.

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Affected Packages

------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 net-analyzer/icinga < 1.14.2 Vulnerable! ------------------------------------------------------------------- NOTE: Certain packages are still vulnerable. Users should migrate to another package if one is available or wait for the existing packages to be marked stable by their architecture maintainers.

Impact

===== A local attacker could escalate privileges to root.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

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