The check_dhcp plugin in Nagios Plugins before 2.0.2 allows local users to obtain sensitive information from INI configuration files via the extra-opts flag, a different vulnerability than CVE-2014-4702.

Update to 2.0.3 release to fix various CVE issues.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

This security update fixes the following issues :

  - Removed the requirement for root access from     plugins-root/check_icmp.c and plugins-root/check_icmp.c.
    The necessary capabilities(7) were added to the README     file.

  - Fixed array out of bounds issue in     plugins-root/check_dhcp.c.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
85474	Fedora 22 : nagios-plugins-2.0.3-1.fc22 (2015-12987)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	low
85473	Fedora 21 : nagios-plugins-2.0.3-1.fc21 (2015-12972)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	low
85469	Fedora 23 : nagios-plugins-2.0.3-1.fc23 (2015-12853)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	low
78856	SuSE 11.3 Security Update : nagios-plugins (SAT Patch Number 9830)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	low

Detections

Analytics

CVE-2014-4701

medium

Tenable Plugins

low

low

low

low