Oval Definition:oval:com.ubuntu.bionic:def:201712847000
Revision Date:2017-08-23Version:1
Title:CVE-2017-12847 on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (bionic) - low.
Description:Nagios Core before 4.3.3 creates a nagios.lock PID file after dropping privileges to a non-root account, which might allow local users to kill arbitrary processes by leveraging access to this non-root account for nagios.lock modification before a root script executes a "kill `cat /pathname/nagios.lock`" command.
Family:unixClass:vulnerability
Status:Reference(s):CVE-2017-12847
Platform(s):Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
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Definition Synopsis
  • Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (bionic) is installed.
  • AND The 'nagios3' package in bionic is affected and needs fixing.
  • BACK