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Threat Intelligence
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- published10 Sept 2020
- disclosed1 Aug 2018
Introduced: 1 Aug 2018
CVE-2016-8641 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:18.10.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream icinga package and not the icinga package as distributed by Ubuntu.
A privilege escalation vulnerability was found in nagios 4.2.x that occurs in daemon-init.in when creating necessary files and insecurely changing the ownership afterwards. It's possible for the local attacker to create symbolic links before the files are to be created and possibly escalating the privileges with the ownership change.
References
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2016-8641
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95121
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-8641
- https://github.com/NagiosEnterprises/nagioscore/commit/f2ed227673d3b2da643eb5cad26b2d87674f28c1.patch
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40774/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-26
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40774