Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Aug 1, 2018· Updated Aug 6, 2024
CVE-2016-8641
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.
Affected products
1Patches
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References
5- www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40774/mitreexploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-26mitrevendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/95121mitrevdb-entryx_refsource_BID
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgimitrex_refsource_CONFIRM
- github.com/NagiosEnterprises/nagioscore/commit/f2ed227673d3b2da643eb5cad26b2d87674f28c1.patchmitrex_refsource_CONFIRM
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