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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 201702-26
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Severity: High
Title: Nagios: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date: February 21, 2017
Bugs: #595194, #598104, #600864, #602216
ID: 201702-26

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Synopsis
========

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Nagios, the worst of which
could lead to privilege escalation.

Background
==========

Nagios is an open source host, service and network monitoring program.

Affected packages
=================

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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 net-analyzer/nagios-core
< 4.2.4 >= 4.2.4

Description
===========

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Nagios. Please review
the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

Impact
======

A local attacker, who either is already Nagios’s system user or belongs
to Nagios’s group, could potentially escalate privileges.

In addition, a remote attacker could read or write to arbitrary files
by spoofing a crafted response from the Nagios RSS feed server.

Workaround
==========

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution
==========

All Nagios users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge –sync
# emerge –ask –oneshot –verbose “>=net-analyzer/nagios-core-4.2.4”

References
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[ 1 ] CVE-2008-4796
http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2008-4796
[ 2 ] CVE-2008-7313
http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2008-7313
[ 3 ] CVE-2016-8641
http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-8641
[ 4 ] CVE-2016-9565
http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-9565
[ 5 ] CVE-2016-9566
http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-9566

Availability
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This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at
the Gentoo Security Website:

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-26

Concerns?
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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.

License
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Copyright 2017 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text
belongs to its owner(s).

The contents of this document are licensed under the
Creative Commons – Attribution / Share Alike license.

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5

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