CVE-2014-4703

Impact:
Important
Public Date:
2014-05-16
Bugzilla:
1098531: CVE-2014-4701 CVE-2014-4703 nagios-plugins: check_dhcp Arbitrary Option File Read

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

lib/parse_ini.c in Nagios Plugins 2.0.2 allows local users to obtain sensitive information via a symlink attack on the configuration file in the extra-opts flag. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2014-4701.

Find out more about CVE-2014-4703 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

This issue did not affect the versions of nagios-plugins as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform.

CVSS v2 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score 4.4
Base Metrics AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:N/A:N
Access Vector Local
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication Single
Confidentiality Impact Complete
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact None

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Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 4.0 nagios-plugins Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 3.0 nagios-plugins Not affected

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