Link Following The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package nagios-plugins  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1210-NAGIOSPLUGINS-635982
  • published10 Sept 2020
  • disclosed5 May 2014

Introduced: 5 May 2014

CVE-2013-4215  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-59  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:12.10.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream nagios-plugins package and not the nagios-plugins package as distributed by Ubuntu.

The IPXPING_COMMAND in contrib/check_ipxping.c in Nagios Plugins 1.4.16 allows local users to gain privileges via a symlink attack on /tmp/ipxping/ipxping.