GLSA 201401-03: Nagstamon: Information disclosure

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Severity:	high
Title:	Nagstamon: Information disclosure
Date:	01/06/2014
Bugs:	#476538
ID:	201401-03

Synopsis

A vulnerability in Nagstamon could expose user credentials to a remote attacker.

Background

Nagstamon is a Nagios status monitor application.

Affected packages

Package	Vulnerable	Unaffected	Architecture(s)
net-analyzer/nagstamon	< 0.9.11_rc1	>= 0.9.11_rc1	All supported architectures

Description

Nagstamon’s automatic request to check for updates includes plaintext username and password information for one of the monitor servers that the Nagstamon instance connects to.

Impact

A remote attacker could eavesdrop on this request and gain user credentials for a monitor server.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All Nagstamon users should upgrade to the latest version:

      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose
      ">=net-analyzer/nagstamon-0.9.11_rc1"

References

CVE-2013-4114

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201401-03.xml

Concerns?

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.