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Debian: CVE-2016-9565: nagios3 -- security update

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Debian: CVE-2016-9565: nagios3 -- security update

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
12/15/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
03/31/2017
Modified
03/02/2020

Description

MagpieRSS, as used in the front-end component in Nagios Core before 4.2.2 might allow remote attackers to read or write to arbitrary files by spoofing a crafted response from the Nagios RSS feed server. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2008-4796.

Solution(s)

  • debian-upgrade-nagios3

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