qh_help in Nagios Core version 4.4.1 and earlier is prone to a NULL pointer dereference vulnerability, which allows attacker to cause a local denial-of-service condition by sending a crafted payload to the listening UNIX socket.

This update for nagios to version 4.4.5 fixes the following issues :

  - CVE-2019-3698: Symbolic link following vulnerability in     the cronjob allows local attackers to cause cause DoS or     potentially escalate privileges. (boo#1156309)

  - CVE-2018-18245: Fixed XSS vulnerability in Alert Summary     report (boo#1119832)

  - CVE-2018-13441, CVE-2018-13458, CVE-2018-13457: Fixed a     few denial of service vulnerabilities caused by NULL     pointer dereference (boo#1101293, boo#1101289,     boo#1101290).

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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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

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Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
135448	openSUSE Security Update : nagios (openSUSE-2020-500)	Nessus	SuSE 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

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CVE-2018-13441

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