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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2017-12847: Nagios: Multiple vulnerabilities

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2017-12847: Nagios: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:C)
Published
08/23/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/30/2017
Modified
10/30/2017

Description

Nagios Core before 4.3.3 creates a nagios.lock PID file after dropping privileges to a non-root account, which might allow local users to kill arbitrary processes by leveraging access to this non-root account for nagios.lock modification before a root script executes a "kill `cat /pathname/nagios.lock`" command.

Solution(s)

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

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