CVE-2017-12847

Name	CVE-2017-12847
Description	Nagios Core before 4.3.3 creates a nagios.lock PID file after dropping privileges to a non-root account, which might allow local users to kill arbitrary processes by leveraging access to this non-root account for nagios.lock modification before a root script executes a "kill `cat /pathname/nagios.lock`" command.
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	vulnerable

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

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
nagios3	source	(unstable)	(unfixed)

Notes

[jessie] - nagios3 <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[wheezy] - nagios3 <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/08/16/7
https://github.com/NagiosEnterprises/nagioscore/issues/404
https://github.com/NagiosEnterprises/nagioscore/commit/1b197346d490df2e2d3b1dcce5ac6134ad0c8752
https://github.com/orlitzky/nagioscore/commit/3baffa78bafebbbdf9f448890ba5a952ea2d73cb