Bug 957482 – CVE-2013-4215 Nagios plugins: IPXPING_COMMAND uses fixed location in /tmp

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Bug 957482 - (CVE-2013-4215) CVE-2013-4215 Nagios plugins: IPXPING_COMMAND uses fixed location in /tmp

Summary:	CVE-2013-4215 Nagios plugins: IPXPING_COMMAND uses fixed location in /tmp

Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG

Aliases:	CVE-2013-4215

Product:	Security Response
Classification:	Other
Component:	vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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Depends On:	994767 994769 994781
Blocks:	958515
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Reported:	2013-04-28 07:37 EDT by Grant Murphy
Modified:	2015-08-19 05:20 EDT (History)
CC List:	4 users (show)

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Last Closed:	2014-03-06 21:18:07 EST
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Description Grant Murphy 2013-04-28 07:37:42 EDT

Found during an audit of openstack and all its dependencies.


Error: nagios-plugins-1.4.16-6.el6ost/nagios-plugins-1.4.16/contrib/check_ipxping.c

    #define IPXPING_COMMAND "/tmp/ipxping/ipxping"

    The IPXPING_COMMAND is used to build command line that is executed 
    later on using execv. As this is a predictable location in a public area
    a local attacker may place their own file in that location or symlink to   
    another command. AFAICT little or no checks are made about the file 
    permissions or ownership.

Comment 2 Kurt Seifried 2013-04-30 01:36:43 EDT

Confirmed in latest upstream nagios-plugins-1.4.16-80-g08f5

Comment 3 Kurt Seifried 2013-04-30 15:22:29 EDT

This issue has been reported upstream: http://tracker.nagios.org/view.php?id=451

Comment 4 Kurt Seifried 2013-08-07 21:49:37 EDT

Created nagios-plugins tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 994781]

Comment 7 Martin Prpič 2013-11-14 12:03:21 EST

Acknowledgements:

This issue was discovered by Grant Murphy of the Red Hat Product Security Team.

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