CVE-2016-8641

NameCVE-2016-8641
DescriptionA 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.
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Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
nagios3 (PTS)jessie, jessie (lts)3.5.1.dfsg-2+deb8u1fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
nagios3source(unstable)(not affected)

Notes

- nagios3 <not-affected> (Vulnerable code not present)
Flaw in upstream damon-init.in. Debian package installs an own init-skript.

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