Executive Summary

Summary
Title Nagios: Multiple vulnerabilities
Informations
Name GLSA-201710-20 First vendor Publication 2017-10-18
Vendor Gentoo Last vendor Modification 2017-10-18
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 7.5 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

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.

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

[ 1 ] CVE-2016-9565 : https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-9565
[ 2 ] CVE-2016-9566 : https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-9566
[ 3 ] CVE-2017-12847 : https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-12847

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website:

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-20

Original Source

Url : http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201710-20.xml

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
25 % CWE-665 Improper Initialization
25 % CWE-284 Access Control (Authorization) Issues
25 % CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls
25 % CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 86

Snort® IPS/IDS

Date Description
2017-04-12 Nagios Core privilege escalation attempt
RuleID : 41824 - Revision : 2 - Type : SERVER-OTHER
2017-04-12 Nagios Core privilege escalation attempt
RuleID : 41823 - Revision : 3 - Type : SERVER-OTHER

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2018-12-27 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security update.
File : debian_DLA-1615.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-01-15 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2017-d270e932a3.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-10-18 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201710-20.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-10-04 Name : The remote Amazon Linux AMI host is missing a security update.
File : ala_ALAS-2017-899.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-06-08 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : ubuntu_USN-3253-2.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-04-04 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : ubuntu_USN-3253-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-02-21 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201702-26.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-02-08 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.
File : redhat-RHSA-2017-0258.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-02-08 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.
File : redhat-RHSA-2017-0259.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-01-17 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2017-100.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-01-03 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201612-51.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-12-20 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security update.
File : debian_DLA-751.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-12-20 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security update.
File : debian_DLA-751.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Alert History

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Date Informations
2017-10-19 13:24:51
  • Multiple Updates
2017-10-18 05:21:30
  • First insertion