Gentoo: GLSA-202007-31: Icinga: Root privilege escalation
Summary
It was discovered that Icinga's installed files have insecure permissions, possibly allowing root privilege escalation.
Resolution
Gentoo has discontinued support for Icinga. We recommend that usersunmerge Icinga:
# emerge --unmerge "net-analyzer/icinga"
NOTE: The Gentoo developer(s) maintaining Icinga have discontinued
support at this time. It may be possible that a new Gentoo developer
will update Icinga at a later date. The natural replacement is Icinga 2
(net-analyzer/icinga2).
References
[ 1 ] CVE-2017-16882 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-16882
Availability
This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at
the Gentoo Security Website:
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-31
Concerns
Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users' machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.
Background
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.
Affected Packages
------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 net-analyzer/icinga < 1.14.2 Vulnerable! ------------------------------------------------------------------- NOTE: Certain packages are still vulnerable. Users should migrate to another package if one is available or wait for the existing packages to be marked stable by their architecture maintainers.
Impact
===== A local attacker could escalate privileges to root.
Workaround
There is no known workaround at this time.
