Upstream information

CVE-2016-9565 at MITRE

Description

MagpieRSS, as used in the front-end component in Nagios Core before 4.2.2 might allow remote attackers to read or write to arbitrary files by spoofing a crafted response from the Nagios RSS feed server. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2008-4796.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having critical severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
  National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 7.5
Vector AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Low
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Partial
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact Partial
CVSS v3 Scores
  National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 9.8
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack Vector Network
Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required None
User Interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact High
Integrity Impact High
Availability Impact High
CVSSv3 Version 3

Note from the SUSE Security Team

Nagios on SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 and older does not contain the RSS reader. Nagios is not included on SUSE Linux Enterprise 12. openSUSE will receive updates.

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 1015744 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

No SUSE Security Announcements cross referenced.


Status of this issue by product and package

Please note that this evaluation state might be work in progress, incomplete or outdated. Also information for service packs in the LTSS phase is only included for issues meeting the LTSS criteria. If in doubt, feel free to contact us for clarification. The updates are grouped by state of their lifecycle. SUSE product lifecycles are documented on the lifecycle page.

Product(s) Source package State
Products past their end of life and not receiving proactive updates anymore.
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP4 nagios Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 nagios Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3-LTSS nagios Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 nagios Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4-LTSS nagios Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 11 SP4 nagios Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP4 nagios Not affected


SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Thu Dec 15 03:07:57 2016
CVE page last modified: Fri Oct 13 19:27:31 2023