CVE-2016-8641

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.

• CWE-59
• CWE-59

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95121Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-8641Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
• https://github.com/NagiosEnterprises/nagioscore/commit/f2ed227673d3b2da643eb5cad26b2d87674f28c1.patchPatch, Third Party Advisory
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-26Third Party Advisory
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40774/Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95121Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-8641Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
• https://github.com/NagiosEnterprises/nagioscore/commit/f2ed227673d3b2da643eb5cad26b2d87674f28c1.patchPatch, Third Party Advisory
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-26Third Party Advisory
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40774/Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry

Published

Aug 1, 2018

Last Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Status

Modified

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