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<glsa id="201812-03">
  <title>Nagios: Privilege escalation</title>
  <synopsis>A vulnerability in Nagios allows local users to escalate
    privileges.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">nagios</product>
  <announced>2018-12-02</announced>
  <revised count="1">2018-12-02</revised>
  <bug>629380</bug>
  <access>local</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="net-analyzer/nagios-core" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">4.3.4</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">4.3.4</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>Nagios is an open source host, service and network monitoring program.</p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>A vulnerability in Nagios was discovered due to the improper handling of
      configuration files which can be owned by a non-root user.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>A local attacker can escalate privileges to root by leveraging access to
      a non-root owned configuration file.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>All Nagios users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=net-analyzer/nagios-core-4.3.4"
    </code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-14312">CVE-2017-14312</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2018-11-24T23:02:56Z">b-man</metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2018-12-02T15:48:26Z">b-man</metadata>
</glsa>
