| Name | CVE-2014-4703 |
| Description | lib/parse_ini.c in Nagios Plugins 2.0.2 allows local users to obtain sensitive information via a symlink attack on the configuration file in the extra-opts flag. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2014-4701. |
| 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.
Notes
- nagios-plugins <not-affected> (incomplete fix for CVE-2014-4701 not applied)
check_dhcp is not installed with root suid permissions in Debian
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Jun/141
Introduced due to incomplete fix for CVE-2014-4701 in 2.0.2.
- monitoring-plugins <not-affected> (Vulnerable code not present, fix for CVE-2014-4701 adressed differently directly by dropping privileges)