| Name | CVE-2016-8641 |
| Description | 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. |
| 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 |
|---|
| nagios3 (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 3.5.1.dfsg-2+deb8u1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| nagios3 | source | (unstable) | (not affected) | | | |
Notes
- nagios3 <not-affected> (Vulnerable code not present)
Flaw in upstream damon-init.in. Debian package installs an own init-skript.