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.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities that have been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched.

  - nagios: Unsafe ownership change leading to privilege escalation (CVE-2016-8641)

  - Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Nagios. (CVE-2016-6209)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied on the package manager's report that the package is installed.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities that have been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched.

  - nagios: Configured administrative account with fixed password and no IP restriction as default     (CVE-2016-0726)

  - Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Nagios. (CVE-2016-6209)

  - 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. (CVE-2016-8641)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied on the package manager's report that the package is installed.

This plugin has been deprecated as it does not adhere to established standards for this style of check.

Incorporate many fixes from Justin Paulsen <petaris@gmail.com> THANKS!!!

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Updates to nagios-4.4.2 which is a major update. Fixes CVE's CVE-2018-13441 CVE-2016-8641

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Incorporate many fixes from Justin Paulsen <petaris@gmail.com> THANKS!!!

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Updates to nagios-4.4.2 which is a major update. Fixes CVE's CVE-2018-13441 CVE-2016-8641

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Remove section which unset nagios Fix BZ#1568273

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

This update for nagios fixes the following issues :

CVE-2016-8641 / CVE-2016-10089: fixed possible symlink attacks for files/directories created by root (bsc#1011630 / bsc#1018047)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

This update for icinga fixes the following issues :

Update to 1.14.0

  - CVE-2015-8010: Fixed XSS in the icinga classic UI     (boo#952777)

  - CVE-2016-8641 / CVE-2016-10089: fixed a possible symlink     attack for files/dirs created by root (boo#1011630 and     boo#1018047)

  - CVE-2016-0726: removed the pre-configured administrative     account with fixed password for the WebUI - (boo#961115)

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201702-26 (Nagios: Multiple vulnerabilities)

    Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Nagios. Please review       the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.
  Impact :

    A local attacker, who either is already Nagios&rsquo;s system user or       belongs to Nagios&rsquo;s group, could potentially escalate privileges.
    In addition, a remote attacker could read or write to arbitrary files by       spoofing a crafted response from the Nagios RSS feed server.
  Workaround :

    There is no known workaround at this time.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
198689	RHEL 7 : nagios (Unpatched Vulnerability)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
198658	RHEL 6 : nagios (Unpatched Vulnerability)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	critical
195400	RHEL 7 : nagios (Unpatched Vulnerability) (deprecated)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
195343	RHEL 6 : nagios (Unpatched Vulnerability) (deprecated)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
121443	Fedora 29 : nagios (2019-376ecc221c)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
121442	Fedora 28 : nagios (2019-0b44528ff1)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
118305	SUSE SLES11 Security Update : nagios (SUSE-SU-2018:3240-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
118249	openSUSE Security Update : icinga (openSUSE-2018-1206)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	critical
97269	GLSA-201702-26 : Nagios: Multiple vulnerabilities	Nessus	Gentoo Local Security Checks	critical

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