gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-201702-26.xml

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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201702-26">
  <title>Nagios: Multiple vulnerabilities</title>
  <synopsis>Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Nagios, the worst of
    which could lead to privilege escalation.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">nagios</product>
  <announced>2017-02-21</announced>
  <revised count="1">2017-02-21</revised>
  <bug>595194</bug>
  <bug>598104</bug>
  <bug>600864</bug>
  <bug>602216</bug>
  <access>local, remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="net-analyzer/nagios-core" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">4.2.4</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">4.2.4</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 CVE identifiers referenced below for details.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="high">
    <p>A local attacker, who either is already Nagios’s system user or
      belongs to Nagios’s group, could potentially escalate privileges.
    </p>
    
    <p>In addition, a remote attacker could read or write to arbitrary files by
      spoofing a crafted response from the Nagios RSS feed server.
    </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-4.2.4"
    </code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2008-4796">CVE-2008-4796</uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2008-7313">CVE-2008-7313</uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-8641">CVE-2016-8641</uri>
    <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>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2017-01-30T01:56:03Z">whissi</metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2017-02-21T00:04:00Z">b-man</metadata>
</glsa>