<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd"> <glsa id="201702-26"> <title>Nagios: Multiple vulnerabilities</title> <synopsis>Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Nagios, the worst of which could lead to privilege escalation. </synopsis> <product type="ebuild">nagios</product> <announced>2017-02-21</announced> <revised count="1">2017-02-21</revised> <bug>595194</bug> <bug>598104</bug> <bug>600864</bug> <bug>602216</bug> <access>local, remote</access> <affected> <package name="net-analyzer/nagios-core" auto="yes" arch="*"> <unaffected range="ge">4.2.4</unaffected> <vulnerable range="lt">4.2.4</vulnerable> </package> </affected> <background> <p>Nagios is an open source host, service and network monitoring program.</p> </background> <description> <p>Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Nagios. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. </p> </description> <impact type="high"> <p>A local attacker, who either is already Nagios’s system user or belongs to Nagios’s group, could potentially escalate privileges. </p> <p>In addition, a remote attacker could read or write to arbitrary files by spoofing a crafted response from the Nagios RSS feed server. </p> </impact> <workaround> <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p> </workaround> <resolution> <p>All Nagios users should upgrade to the latest version:</p> <code> # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-analyzer/nagios-core-4.2.4" </code> </resolution> <references> <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2008-4796">CVE-2008-4796</uri> <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2008-7313">CVE-2008-7313</uri> <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-8641">CVE-2016-8641</uri> <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-9565">CVE-2016-9565</uri> <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-9566">CVE-2016-9566</uri> </references> <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2017-01-30T01:56:03Z">whissi</metadata> <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2017-02-21T00:04:00Z">b-man</metadata> </glsa>