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Amazon Linux AMI: Security patch for nagios (ALAS-2013-227) (CVE-2013-2029)

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Amazon Linux AMI: Security patch for nagios (ALAS-2013-227) (CVE-2013-2029)

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:C)
Published
11/23/2013
Created
07/25/2018
Added
02/28/2014
Modified
07/04/2017

Description

nagios.upgrade_to_v3.sh, as distributed by Red Hat and possibly others for Nagios Core 3.4.4, 3.5.1, and earlier, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a temporary nagioscfg file with a predictable name in /tmp/.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-upgrade-nagios
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-nagios-common
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-nagios-debuginfo
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-nagios-devel

References

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