openSUSE 11.4: 2013:0624-1 Important: NRPE Command Execution Issue

NRPE (the Nagios Remote Plug-In Executor) allows the

passing of $() to plugins/scripts which, if run under bash,

will execute that shell command under a subprocess and pass

the output as a parameter to the called script. Using this,

it is possible to get called scripts, such as check_http,

to execute arbitrary commands under the uid that

NRPE/nagios is running as (typically, 'nagios').

With this update NRPE will deny remote requests

containing a bash command substitution.