Security News > 2016 > December > Nagios 4.2.4 closes serious root privilege escalation bug (Help Net Security)
2016-12-16 13:30
If you’re using Nagios to monitor your systems, networks and infrastructure, and you have not updated to version 4.2.4, you better hop to it. This latest release fixes a high severity root privilege escalation vulnerability (CVE-2016-9566) discovered by researcher Dawid Golunski, who published a proof-of-concept exploit for it on Thursday. “Nagios Core daemon in versions below 4.2.4 was found to perform unsafe operations when handling the log file. This could be exploited by malicious local … More →
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Related Vulnerability
| DATE | CVE | VULNERABILITY TITLE | RISK |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-12-15 | CVE-2016-9566 | Link Following vulnerability in Nagios base/logging.c in Nagios Core before 4.2.4 allows local users with access to an account in the nagios group to gain root privileges via a symlink attack on the log file. | 7.8 |