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 privileges with the ownership change.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2018-08-01T14:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-06T02:27:41.284Z

Reserved: 2016-10-12T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2016-8641

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2018-08-01T14:29:00.253

Modified: 2024-11-21T02:59:44.760

Link: CVE-2016-8641

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2016-8641 - Bugzilla