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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2016-9566: Icinga: Privilege escalation

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Dec 15, 2016
Added
Oct 30, 2017
Modified
Mar 31, 2026

Description

base/logging.c in Nagios Core before 4.2.4 allows local users with access to an account in the nagios group to gain root privileges via a symlink attack on the log file. NOTE: this can be leveraged by remote attackers using CVE-2016-9565.

Solutions

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