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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201612-51">
  <title>Icinga: Privilege escalation</title>
  <synopsis>A vulnerability in Icinga could lead to privilege escalation.</synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">icinga</product>
  <announced>2016-12-31</announced>
  <revised>2016-12-31: 1</revised>
  <bug>603534</bug>
  <access>local</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="net-analyzer/icinga" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">1.13.4</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">1.13.4</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>Icinga is an open source computer system and network monitoring
      application. It was originally created as a fork of the Nagios system
      monitoring application in 2009.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>Icinga daemon was found to perform unsafe operations when handling the
      log file.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>A local attacker, who either is already Icinga’s system user or
      belongs to Icinga’s group, could potentially escalate privileges.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>All Icinga users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=net-analyzer/icinga-1.13.4"
    </code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-9566">CVE-2016-9566</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2016-12-30T23:44:53Z">whissi</metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2016-12-31T06:37:34Z">whissi</metadata>
</glsa>