GLSA 202007-31: Icinga: Root privilege escalation

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Severity:	high
Title:	Icinga: Root privilege escalation
Date:	07/27/2020
Bugs:	#638186
ID:	202007-31

Synopsis

Icinga installs files with insecure permissions allowing root 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	< 1.14.2		All supported architectures

Description

It was discovered that Icinga’s installed files have insecure permissions, possibly allowing root privilege escalation.

Impact

A local attacker could escalate privileges to root.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

Gentoo has discontinued support for Icinga. We recommend that users unmerge Icinga:

      # emerge --unmerge "net-analyzer/icinga"

NOTE: The Gentoo developer(s) maintaining Icinga have discontinued support at this time. It may be possible that a new Gentoo developer will update Icinga at a later date. The natural replacement is Icinga 2 (net-analyzer/icinga2).

References

CVE-2017-16882

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-202007-31.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.