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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2017-16882: Icinga: Root privilege escalation

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2017-16882: Icinga: Root privilege escalation

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
11/18/2017
Created
07/28/2020
Added
07/28/2020
Modified
07/28/2020

Description

Icinga Core through 1.14.0 initially executes bin/icinga as root but supports configuration options in which this file is owned by a non-root account (and similarly can have etc/icinga.cfg owned by a non-root account), which allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging access to this non-root account, a related issue to CVE-2017-14312. This also affects bin/icingastats, bin/ido2db, and bin/log2ido.

Solution(s)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-net-analyzer-icinga

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