| Name | CVE-2013-4215 |
| Description | 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| monitoring-plugins (PTS) | jessie | 2.1.1-1 | fixed |
| stretch | 2.2-3 | fixed |
| buster | 2.2-6 | fixed |
| bullseye | 2.3.1-1 | fixed |
| bookworm | 2.3.3-5+deb12u2 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 2.4.0-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| monitoring-plugins | source | (unstable) | (not affected) | | | |
| nagios-plugins | source | (unstable) | 1.4.16+git20130902-1 | unimportant | | |
Notes
vulnerable code present, but check_ipxping is neither built nor installed
- monitoring-plugins <not-affected> (Fixed before initial upload to Debian)
contrib/check_ipxping removed from src:monitoring-pluging before the
initial upload to Debian after the source package rename.