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Debian Security Advisory

DLA-751-1 nagios3 -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

17 Dec 2016

Affected Packages:

nagios3

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2016-9565, CVE-2016-9566.

More information:

Nagios was found to be vulnerable to two security issues that, when combined, lead to a remote root code execution vulnerability. Fortunately, the hardened permissions of the Debian package limit the effect of those to information disclosure, but privilege escalation to root is still possible locally.

• CVE-2016-9565

  Improper sanitization of RSS feed input enables unauthenticated remote read and write of arbitrary files which may lead to remote code execution if the web root is writable.

• CVE-2016-9566

  Unsafe logfile handling allows unprivileged users to escalate their privileges to root. In wheezy, this is possible only through the debug logfile which is disabled by default.

For Debian 7 Wheezy, these problems have been fixed in version 3.4.1-3+deb7u3.

We recommend that you upgrade your nagios3 packages.

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