PublicDateAtUSN: 2016-12-15
Candidate: CVE-2016-9566
PublicDate: 2016-12-15 22:59:00 UTC
References:
 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-9566
 https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3253-1
Description:
 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.  NOTE: this can be leveraged by remote attackers
 using CVE-2016-9565.
Ubuntu-Description:
Notes:
Bugs:
Priority: medium
Discovered-by: Dawid Golunski
Assigned-to:
CVSS:
 nvd: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H [7.8 HIGH]

Patches_nagios3:
 upstream: https://github.com/NagiosEnterprises/nagioscore/commit/c29557dec91eba2306f5fb11b8da4474ba63f8c4
upstream_nagios3: needs-triage
precise_nagios3: ignored (reached end-of-life)
precise/esm_nagios3: DNE (precise was needed)
trusty_nagios3: released (3.5.1-1ubuntu1.1)
trusty/esm_nagios3: DNE (trusty was released [3.5.1-1ubuntu1.1])
vivid/stable-phone-overlay_nagios3: DNE
vivid/ubuntu-core_nagios3: DNE
xenial_nagios3: released (3.5.1.dfsg-2.1ubuntu1.1)
esm-infra/xenial_nagios3: released (3.5.1.dfsg-2.1ubuntu1.1)
yakkety_nagios3: released (3.5.1.dfsg-2.1ubuntu3.1)
zesty_nagios3: released (3.5.1.dfsg-2.1ubuntu5)
devel_nagios3: released (3.5.1.dfsg-2.1ubuntu5)