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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201806-09">
<title>PNP4Nagios: Root privilege escalation</title>
<synopsis>A vulnerability in PNP4Nagios which may allow local attackers to
gain root privileges.
</synopsis>
<product type="ebuild">pnp4nagios</product>
<announced>2018-06-24</announced>
<revised count="1">2018-06-24</revised>
<bug>637640</bug>
<access>local</access>
<affected>
<package name="net-analyzer/pnp4nagios" auto="yes" arch="*">
<unaffected range="ge">0.6.26-r9</unaffected>
<vulnerable range="lt">0.6.26-r9</vulnerable>
</package>
</affected>
<background>
<p>PNP4Nagios is an addon for the Nagios Network Monitoring System.</p>
</background>
<description>
<p>It was found that PHP4Nagios creates files owned by an unprivileged user
that are used by root.
</p>
</description>
<impact type="normal">
<p>A local attacker could escalate privileges to root.</p>
</impact>
<workaround>
<p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
</workaround>
<resolution>
<p>All PNP4Nagios users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
<code>
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose
"&gt;=net-analyzer/pnp4nagios-0.6.26-r9"
</code>
</resolution>
<references>
<uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-16834">CVE-2017-16834</uri>
</references>
<metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2018-06-19T23:53:20Z">b-man</metadata>
<metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2018-06-24T03:10:22Z">irishluck83</metadata>
</glsa>