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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201806-09">
  <title>PNP4Nagios: Root privilege escalation</title>
  <synopsis>A vulnerability in PNP4Nagios which may allow local attackers to
    gain root privileges.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">pnp4nagios</product>
  <announced>2018-06-24</announced>
  <revised count="1">2018-06-24</revised>
  <bug>637640</bug>
  <access>local</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="net-analyzer/pnp4nagios" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">0.6.26-r9</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">0.6.26-r9</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>PNP4Nagios is an addon for the Nagios Network Monitoring System.</p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>It was found that PHP4Nagios creates files owned by an unprivileged user
      that are used by root.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>A local attacker could escalate privileges to root.</p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>All PNP4Nagios users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose
      "&gt;=net-analyzer/pnp4nagios-0.6.26-r9"
    </code>
    
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-16834">CVE-2017-16834</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2018-06-19T23:53:20Z">b-man</metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2018-06-24T03:10:22Z">irishluck83</metadata>
</glsa>