metadata/glsa/glsa-201710-20.xml


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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201710-20">
  <title>Nagios: Multiple vulnerabilities</title>
  <synopsis>Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Nagios, the worst of
    which could lead to the remote execution of arbitrary code.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">nagios</product>
  <announced>2017-10-18</announced>
  <revised count="1">2017-10-18</revised>
  <bug>602216</bug>
  <bug>628086</bug>
  <access>local, remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="net-analyzer/nagios-core" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">4.3.3</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">4.3.3</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>Nagios is an open source host, service and network monitoring program.</p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Nagios. Please review
      the referenced CVE identifiers for details.
    </p>
    
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>A remote attacker could possibly escalate privileges to root, thus
      allowing the execution of arbitrary code, by leveraging CVE-2016-9565. 
      Additionally, a local attacker could cause a Denial of Service condition
      against arbitrary processes due to the improper dropping of privileges.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>All Nagios users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=net-analyzer/nagios-core-4.3.3"
    </code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-9565">
      CVE-2016-9565
    </uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-9566">
      CVE-2016-9566
    </uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-12847">
      CVE-2017-12847
    </uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2017-10-02T06:35:45Z">BlueKnight</metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2017-10-18T01:17:41Z">chrisadr</metadata>
</glsa>