Access Restriction Bypass Affecting nagios-devel package, versions <0:3.5.1-2.10.amzn1
Threat Intelligence
Snyk has a published code exploit for this vulnerability.
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- published27 Sept 2021
- disclosed15 Dec 2016
Introduced: 15 Dec 2016
CVE-2016-9566 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade Amazon-Linux:2018.03 nagios-devel to version 0:3.5.1-2.10.amzn1 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALAS-2017-899.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream nagios-devel package and not the nagios-devel package as distributed by Amazon-Linux.
See How to fix? for Amazon-Linux:2018.03 relevant fixed versions and status.
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. NOTE: this can be leveraged by remote attackers using CVE-2016-9565.
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94919
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1402869
- https://github.com/NagiosEnterprises/nagioscore/commit/c29557dec91eba2306f5fb11b8da4474ba63f8c4
- https://www.nagios.org/projects/nagios-core/history/4x/
- http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-9566
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40921/
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2016/Dec/58
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-51
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-26
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-20
- https://legalhackers.com/advisories/Nagios-Exploit-Root-PrivEsc-CVE-2016-9566.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/12/msg00014.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0211.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0212.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0213.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0214.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0258.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0259.html
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037487
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40920