GLSA 201710-20: Nagios: Multiple vulnerabilities

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Severity:	normal
Title:	Nagios: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date:	10/18/2017
Bugs:	#602216, #628086
ID:	201710-20

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Nagios, the worst of which could lead to the remote execution of arbitrary code.

Background

Nagios is an open source host, service and network monitoring program.

Affected packages

Package	Vulnerable	Unaffected	Architecture(s)
net-analyzer/nagios-core	< 4.3.3	>= 4.3.3	All supported architectures

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Nagios. Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details.

Impact

A remote attacker could possibly escalate privileges to root, thus allowing the execution of arbitrary code, by leveraging CVE-2016-9565. Additionally, a local attacker could cause a Denial of Service condition against arbitrary processes due to the improper dropping of privileges.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All Nagios users should upgrade to the latest version:

      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-analyzer/nagios-core-4.3.3"

References

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201710-20.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.