Oval Definition:oval:com.ubuntu.bionic:def:20168641000
Revision Date:2018-08-01Version:1
Title:CVE-2016-8641 on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (bionic) - low.
Description: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.
Family:unixClass:vulnerability
Status:Reference(s):CVE-2016-8641
Platform(s):Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
Product(s):
Definition Synopsis
  • Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (bionic) is installed.
  • AND Package Information
  • NOT While related to the CVE in some way, the 'icinga' package in bionic is not affected.
  • OR NOT While related to the CVE in some way, the 'nagios3' package in bionic is not affected (note: 'code not present').
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