CVE - CVE-2016-8641

CVE-ID
CVE-2016-8641	Learn more at National Vulnerability Database (NVD) • CVSS Severity Rating • Fix Information • Vulnerable Software Versions • SCAP Mappings • CPE Information
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.
References
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MISC:40774 URL:https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40774/ MISC:95121 URL:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95121 MISC:GLSA-201702-26 URL:https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-26 MISC:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-8641 URL:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-8641 MISC:https://github.com/NagiosEnterprises/nagioscore/commit/f2ed227673d3b2da643eb5cad26b2d87674f28c1.patch URL:https://github.com/NagiosEnterprises/nagioscore/commit/f2ed227673d3b2da643eb5cad26b2d87674f28c1.patch
Assigning CNA
Red Hat, Inc.
Date Record Created
20161012	Disclaimer: The record creation date may reflect when the CVE ID was allocated or reserved, and does not necessarily indicate when this vulnerability was discovered, shared with the affected vendor, publicly disclosed, or updated in CVE.
Phase (Legacy)
Assigned (20161012)
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Comments (Legacy)

Proposed (Legacy)
N/A
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