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| Rule General Information |
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| Release Date: | 2017-05-15 | |
| Rule Name: | Nagios Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability (CVE-2016-9566) | |
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| Rule Protection Details |
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| Description: | base/logging.c in Nagios Core before 4.2.4 allows local users with access to an account in the nagios group to gain root privileges via a symlink attack on the log file. | |
| Impact: | An attacker can abtain more privileges which he is not entitled to by exloiting the vulnerability, such as executing arbitrary code, deleting files, viewing sensitive information, changing configurations. | |
| Affected OS: | Other Unix, FreeBSD, Linux | |
| Reference: | SecurityFocusBID:94919 SecurityTrackerID:1037487 |
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| Solutions |
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| Upgrade to version 4.2.4 to solve the problem. |