A privilege escalation vulnerability was found in nagios 4.2.x that occurs in daemon-init.in when creating necessary files and insecurely changing the ownership afterwards. It's possible for the local attacker to create symbolic links before the files are to be created and possibly escalating the privileges with the ownership change.
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EUVD-2016-9482 | A privilege escalation vulnerability was found in nagios 4.2.x that occurs in daemon-init.in when creating necessary files and insecurely changing the ownership afterwards. It's possible for the local attacker to create symbolic links before the files are to be created and possibly escalating the privileges with the ownership change. |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: redhat
Published:
Updated: 2024-08-06T02:27:41.284Z
Reserved: 2016-10-12T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2016-8641

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Status : Modified
Published: 2018-08-01T14:29:00.253
Modified: 2024-11-21T02:59:44.760
Link: CVE-2016-8641


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