Bug 1482479 (CVE-2017-12847)

Summary:	CVE-2017-12847 nagios: Incorrect permissions for PID file
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Adam Mariš <amaris>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	low	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	unspecified	CC:	affix, apevec, athmanem, avibelli, b.heden, chrisw, cvsbot-xmlrpc, drusso, jbalunas, jjoyce, jmrazek, jose.p.oliveira.oss, jschluet, jshepherd, kbasil, lemenkov, lhh, lpeer, markmc, mmagr, ondrejj, rbryant, redhat, rrajasek, sclewis, shawn.starr, sisharma, smooge, srevivo, s, swilkerson, tdecacqu, tkirby
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Bug Depends On:	1482480, 1482481
Bug Blocks:	1482483

Description Adam Mariš 2017-08-17 11:40:12 UTC

It was found that nagios daemon creates its PID file after dropping privileges, which allows to change its content by non-root user with PID of any other process, resulting into denial-of-service when daemon is stopped.

Upstream bug:

https://github.com/NagiosEnterprises/nagioscore/issues/404

References:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q3/305

Comment 1 Adam Mariš 2017-08-17 11:40:49 UTC

Created nagios tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 1482480]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1482481]

Comment 2 Jason Shepherd 2017-08-21 02:39:59 UTC

There are no other processes within PID namespace for Nagios container in RHMAP. Closing as WONTFIX

Comment 3 Joshua Padman 2019-08-06 09:50:43 UTC

This vulnerability is out of security support scope for the following product:

 * Red Hat Mobile Application Platform

 Please refer to https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/rhmap for more details

Comment 4 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-08-06 13:18:25 UTC

This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s):

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2017-12847