Bug 1482479 (CVE-2017-12847) - CVE-2017-12847 nagios: Incorrect permissions for PID file
Summary: CVE-2017-12847 nagios: Incorrect permissions for PID file
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2017-12847
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1482480 1482481
Blocks: 1482483
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2017-08-17 11:40 UTC by Adam Mariš
Modified: 2020-12-14 10:24 UTC (History)
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Fixed In Version: nagios 4.3.3
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Last Closed: 2019-08-06 13:18:25 UTC
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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
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