Bug 1402869 (CVE-2016-9566)

Summary:	CVE-2016-9566 nagios: Privilege escalation issue
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Adam Mariš <amaris>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	high	Docs Contact:
Priority:	high
Version:	unspecified	CC:	affix, apevec, avibelli, chrisw, cvsbot-xmlrpc, gsterlin, jbalunas, jose.p.oliveira.oss, jschluet, jshepherd, julthomas, kbasil, lemenkov, lhh, linux, lpeer, markmc, mmagr, ondrejj, rbryant, rcyriac, rhs-bugs, rrajasek, sclewis, sgirijan, shawn.starr, sisharma, slong, smooge, srevivo, ssaha, s, storage-qa-internal, swilkerson, tdecacqu, tkirby, vbellur
Target Milestone:	---	Keywords:	Reopened, Security
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	nagios 4.2.4	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:	A privilege escalation flaw was found in the way Nagios handled log files. An attacker able to control the Nagios logging configuration (the 'nagios' user/group) could use this flaw to elevate their privileges to root.	Story Points:	---
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Last Closed:	2019-06-08 03:03:52 UTC	Type:	---
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oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
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Bug Depends On:	1402870, 1402871, 1406780, 1413480, 1413481, 1413482, 1413483
Bug Blocks:	1402874, 1415899, 1417519

Description Adam Mariš 2016-12-08 14:08:40 UTC

An unsafe file opening/creation of logging files that can be misused for root privilege escalation was found in base/logging.c.

Upstream patch:

https://github.com/NagiosEnterprises/nagioscore/commit/c29557dec91eba2306f5fb11b8da4474ba63f8c4

Comment 1 Adam Mariš 2016-12-08 14:09:13 UTC

Created nagios tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1402870]
Affects: epel-all [bug 1402871]

Comment 5 Jason Shepherd 2016-12-15 04:00:35 UTC

An openshift user account is required to get access to the RHMAP Monitoring with Nagios, ref:

  https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en/red-hat-mobile-application-platform/4.2/paged/operations-guide/chapter-1-monitoring-rhmap-with-nagios#retrieving-nagios-login-credentials

Comment 6 Adam Mariš 2016-12-16 09:49:21 UTC

External Reference:

https://legalhackers.com/advisories/Nagios-Exploit-Root-PrivEsc-CVE-2016-9566.html

Comment 7 Andrej Nemec 2016-12-21 09:02:32 UTC

References:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q4/715

Comment 10 errata-xmlrpc 2017-01-31 05:53:37 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 7.0 (Kilo) for RHEL 7

Via RHSA-2017:0214 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0214.html

Comment 11 errata-xmlrpc 2017-01-31 05:55:01 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 6.0 (Juno) for RHEL 7

Via RHSA-2017:0213 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0213.html

Comment 12 errata-xmlrpc 2017-01-31 05:56:21 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5.0 (Icehouse) for RHEL 6

Via RHSA-2017:0212 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0212.html

Comment 13 errata-xmlrpc 2017-01-31 05:57:52 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5.0 (Icehouse) for RHEL 7

Via RHSA-2017:0211 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0211.html

Comment 15 errata-xmlrpc 2017-02-07 11:16:45 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.1 for RHEL 6

Via RHSA-2017:0259 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0259.html

Comment 16 errata-xmlrpc 2017-02-07 11:17:48 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.1 for RHEL 7

Via RHSA-2017:0258 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0258.html