Link Following Affecting nagios-common package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.07% (31st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-NAGIOSCOMMON-4995228
  • published26 Mar 2023
  • disclosed30 Dec 2016

Introduced: 30 Dec 2016

CVE-2016-10089  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-59  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:7 nagios-common.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream nagios-common package and not the nagios-common package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

Nagios 4.3.2 and earlier allows local users to gain root privileges via a hard link attack on the Nagios init script file, related to CVE-2016-8641.