GLSA 201612-51: Icinga: Privilege escalation

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Severity:	normal
Title:	Icinga: Privilege escalation
Date:	12/31/2016
Bugs:	#603534
ID:	201612-51

Synopsis

A vulnerability in Icinga could lead to privilege escalation.

Background

Icinga is an open source computer system and network monitoring application. It was originally created as a fork of the Nagios system monitoring application in 2009.

Affected packages

Package	Vulnerable	Unaffected	Architecture(s)
net-analyzer/icinga	< 1.13.4	>= 1.13.4	All supported architectures

Description

Icinga daemon was found to perform unsafe operations when handling the log file.

Impact

A local attacker, who either is already Icinga’s system user or belongs to Icinga’s group, could potentially escalate privileges.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All Icinga users should upgrade to the latest version:

      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-analyzer/icinga-1.13.4"

References

CVE-2016-9566

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201612-51.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.