CVE-2016-8641

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...

CVE-2016-8641

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...

CVE-2016-8641

CVE-2016-8641 affects Nagios core (notably 4.2.x) where a privilege-escalation flaw exists in daemon-init.in during file creation and post-creation ownership changes. An attacker on the local host could exploit symbolic links created before files are made to escalate privileges via ownership chan...