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Red Hat Security Advisory 2017-0258-01

Red Hat Security Advisory 2017-0258-01
Posted Feb 8, 2017
Authored by Red Hat | Site access.redhat.com

Red Hat Security Advisory 2017-0258-01 - Nagios is a program that monitors hosts and services on your network, and has the ability to send email or page alerts when a problem arises or is resolved. Security Fix: It was found that an attacker who could control the content of an RSS feed could execute code remotely using the Nagios web interface. This flaw could be used to gain access to the remote system and in some scenarios control over the system.

tags | advisory, remote, web
systems | linux, redhat
advisories | CVE-2016-9565, CVE-2016-9566
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Red Hat Security Advisory 2017-0258-01

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Red Hat Security Advisory

Synopsis: Important: nagios security update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2017:0258-01
Product: Red Hat Gluster Storage
Advisory URL: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0258.html
Issue date: 2017-02-07
CVE Names: CVE-2016-9565 CVE-2016-9566
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1. Summary:

An update for nagios is now available for Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.1 for
RHEL 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact
of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,
which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability
from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

2. Relevant releases/architectures:

Red Hat Gluster Storage Nagios 3.1 on RHEL-7 - x86_64
Red Hat Gluster Storage Server 3.1 on RHEL-7 - x86_64

3. Description:

Nagios is a program that monitors hosts and services on your network, and
has the ability to send email or page alerts when a problem arises or is
resolved.

Security Fix(es):

* It was found that an attacker who could control the content of an RSS
feed could execute code remotely using the Nagios web interface. This flaw
could be used to gain access to the remote system and in some scenarios
control over the system. (CVE-2016-9565)

* A privilege escalation flaw was found in the way Nagios handled log
files. An attacker able to control the Nagios logging configuration (the
'nagios' user/group) could use this flaw to elevate their privileges to
root. (CVE-2016-9566)

4. Solution:

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes
described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

5. Bugs fixed (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/):

1402869 - CVE-2016-9566 nagios: Privilege escalation issue
1405363 - CVE-2016-9565 nagios: Command injection via curl in MagpieRSS

6. Package List:

Red Hat Gluster Storage Nagios 3.1 on RHEL-7:

Source:
nagios-3.5.1-9.el7.src.rpm

x86_64:
nagios-3.5.1-9.el7.x86_64.rpm
nagios-common-3.5.1-9.el7.x86_64.rpm
nagios-debuginfo-3.5.1-9.el7.x86_64.rpm

Red Hat Gluster Storage Server 3.1 on RHEL-7:

Source:
nagios-3.5.1-9.el7.src.rpm

x86_64:
nagios-common-3.5.1-9.el7.x86_64.rpm
nagios-debuginfo-3.5.1-9.el7.x86_64.rpm

These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and
details on how to verify the signature are available from
https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key/

7. References:

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-9565
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-9566
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

8. Contact:

The Red Hat security contact is <secalert@redhat.com>. More contact
details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/

Copyright 2017 Red Hat, Inc.
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