Mageia alert MGASA-2017-0045 (nagios)

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[updates-announce] MGASA-2017-0045: Updated nagios packages fix security vulnerabilities 
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Sun, 12 Feb 2017 00:47:44 +0100
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MGASA-2017-0045 - Updated nagios packages fix security vulnerabilities

Publication date: 11 Feb 2017
URL: http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2017-0045.html
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases: 5
CVE: CVE-2016-9565,
     CVE-2016-9566

Description:
The nagios package has been patched to fix the following issues:

Improper sanitization of RSS feed input enables unauthenticated remote
read and write of arbitrary files (CVE-2016-9565).

Unsafe logfile handling allows unprivileged users to escalate their
privileges to root (CVE-2016-9566).

References:
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19989
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/20/4
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/20/5
- https://lwn.net/Alerts/709639/
- http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-9565
- http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-9566

SRPMS:
- 5/core/nagios-4.0.8-3.1.mga5