vulnerability

Gentoo Linux: CVE-2016-8641: Nagios: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Feb 21, 2017
Added
Oct 30, 2017
Modified
Mar 31, 2026

Description

A privilege escalation vulnerability was found in nagios 4.2.x that occurs in daemon-init.in when creating necessary files and insecurely changing the ownership afterwards. It's possible for the local attacker to create symbolic links before the files are to be created and possibly escalating the privileges with the ownership change.

Solution

gentoo-linux-upgrade-net-analyzer-nagios-core
Title
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