MGASA-2017-0437

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    MGASA-2017-0437

    Published: 1 Dec 2017Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2017-12847

    Summary: Updated nagios packages fix security vulnerability

    Details: It was found that nagios daemon creates its PID file after dropping privileges, which allows to change its content by non-root user with PID of any other process, resulting into denial-of-service when daemon is stopped (CVE-2017-12847). Note that the nagios package on Mageia 5 is no longer supported. Users of this package should upgrade to Mageia 6.

    References: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2017-0437.html, https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22049, https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/thread/WYI2Q2GXM5Z4DQCQSU2GUHC6AUDK7HK3/

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: nagios

    Purl: pkg:rpm/mageia/nagios?arch=source&distro=mageia-6

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -4.3.1-2.1.mga6

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High