Upstream information

CVE-2016-8641 at MITRE

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.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
  National Vulnerability Database SUSE
Base Score 7.2 4.4
Vector AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector Local Local
Access Complexity Low Medium
Authentication None None
Confidentiality Impact Complete Partial
Integrity Impact Complete Partial
Availability Impact Complete Partial
CVSS v3 Scores
  National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 6.7
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack Vector Local
Attack Complexity High
Privileges Required Low
User Interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact High
Integrity Impact High
Availability Impact High
CVSSv3 Version 3
SUSE Bugzilla entries: 1011630 [RESOLVED / FIXED], 1018047 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

List of released packages

Product(s) Fixed package version(s) References
SUSE Enterprise Storage 4
  • icinga >= 1.13.3-12.3.1
 Patchnames:
SUSE-Storage-4-2018-2580
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP4
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP4
  • nagios >= 3.0.6-1.25.36.3.1
  • nagios-devel >= 3.0.6-1.25.36.3.1
  • nagios-www >= 3.0.6-1.25.36.3.1
 Patchnames:
sdksp4-nagios-13820
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 11 SP4
  • nagios >= 3.0.6-1.25.36.3.1
  • nagios-devel >= 3.0.6-1.25.36.3.1
  • nagios-www >= 3.0.6-1.25.36.3.1
 Patchnames:
sdksp4-nagios-13820
slessp4-nagios-13820
SUSE Manager Client Tools 12
  • icinga >= 1.13.3-12.3.1
  • icinga-devel >= 1.13.3-12.3.1
  • icinga-doc >= 1.13.3-12.3.1
  • icinga-idoutils >= 1.13.3-12.3.1
  • icinga-idoutils-mysql >= 1.13.3-12.3.1
  • icinga-idoutils-oracle >= 1.13.3-12.3.1
  • icinga-idoutils-pgsql >= 1.13.3-12.3.1
  • icinga-plugins-downtimes >= 1.13.3-12.3.1
  • icinga-plugins-eventhandlers >= 1.13.3-12.3.1
  • icinga-www >= 1.13.3-12.3.1
  • icinga-www-config >= 1.13.3-12.3.1
  • monitoring-tools >= 1.13.3-12.3.1
 Patchnames:
SUSE-SLE-Manager-Tools-12-2018-2580
openSUSE Tumbleweed
  • nagios >= 4.4.6-2.5
  • nagios-contrib >= 4.4.6-2.5
  • nagios-devel >= 4.4.6-2.5
  • nagios-theme-exfoliation >= 4.4.6-2.5
  • nagios-www >= 4.4.6-2.5
  • nagios-www-dch >= 4.4.6-2.5
 Patchnames:
openSUSE-Tumbleweed-2024-11073

Status of this issue by product and package

Please note that this evaluation state might be work in progress, incomplete or outdated. Also information for service packs in the LTSS phase is only included for issues meeting the LTSS criteria. If in doubt, feel free to contact us for clarification. The updates are grouped by state of their lifecycle. SUSE product lifecycles are documented on the lifecycle page.

Product(s) Source package State
Products under general support and receiving all security fixes.
SUSE Manager Client Tools 12 icinga Released
SUSE Manager Client Tools 12-BETA icinga Affected
SUSE Manager Client Tools for SLE 12 icinga Released
Products past their end of life and not receiving proactive updates anymore.
SUSE Enterprise Storage 4 icinga Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP2 nagios Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP3 nagios Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP4 nagios Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Sale 11 SP3 nagios Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Service 11 SP3 nagios Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP4-LTSS nagios Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1-LTSS nagios Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 nagios Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2-LTSS nagios Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 nagios Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3-LTSS nagios Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 nagios Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 LTSS nagios Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4-LTSS nagios Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 11 SP2 nagios Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 11 SP3 nagios Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 11 SP4 nagios Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Bootstrap Kit 12 nagios Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP2 nagios Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP3 nagios Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP4 nagios Released

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Mon Nov 21 21:00:08 2016
CVE page last modified: Fri Nov 15 16:09:31 2024