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From: Sam James <sam@g.o>
To: gentoo-announce@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-announce] [ GLSA 202007-31 ] Icinga: Root privilege escalation
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2020 00:28:50
Message-Id: 32EE8E40-BE6E-4E92-AC53-B1C881F0A1B8@gentoo.org
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2 Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 202007-31
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7 Severity: High
8 Title: Icinga: Root privilege escalation
9 Date: July 27, 2020
10 Bugs: #638186
11 ID: 202007-31
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15 Synopsis
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18 Icinga installs files with insecure permissions allowing root privilege
19 escalation.
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21 Background
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24 Icinga is an open source computer system and network monitoring
25 application. It was originally created as a fork of the Nagios system
26 monitoring application in 2009.
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28 Affected packages
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32 Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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34 1 net-analyzer/icinga < 1.14.2 Vulnerable!
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36 NOTE: Certain packages are still vulnerable. Users should migrate
37 to another package if one is available or wait for the
38 existing packages to be marked stable by their
39 architecture maintainers.
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41 Description
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44 It was discovered that Icinga's installed files have insecure
45 permissions, possibly allowing root privilege escalation.
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47 Impact
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50 A local attacker could escalate privileges to root.
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52 Workaround
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55 There is no known workaround at this time.
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57 Resolution
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60 Gentoo has discontinued support for Icinga. We recommend that users
61 unmerge Icinga:
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63 # emerge --unmerge "net-analyzer/icinga"
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65 NOTE: The Gentoo developer(s) maintaining Icinga have discontinued
66 support at this time. It may be possible that a new Gentoo developer
67 will update Icinga at a later date. The natural replacement is Icinga 2
68 (net-analyzer/icinga2).
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70 References
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73 [ 1 ] CVE-2017-16882
74 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-16882
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76 Availability
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79 This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at
80 the Gentoo Security Website:
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82 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-31
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84 Concerns?
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87 Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the
88 confidentiality and security of our users' machines is of utmost
89 importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to
90 security@g.o or alternatively, you may file a bug at
91 https://bugs.gentoo.org.
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93 License
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96 Copyright 2020 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text
97 belongs to its owner(s).
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99 The contents of this document are licensed under the
100 Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license.
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102 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5

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