CVE-2019-3698
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2020-02-28 13:20
Modified
2024-09-16 16:33
Severity ?
5.7 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:L
Summary
UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following vulnerability in the cronjob shipped with nagios of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11; openSUSE Factory allows local attackers to cause cause DoS or potentially escalate privileges by winning a race. This issue affects: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 nagios version 3.5.1-5.27 and prior versions. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 nagios version 3.0.6-1.25.36.3.1 and prior versions. openSUSE Factory nagios version 4.4.5-2.1 and prior versions.
References
meissner@suse.dehttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-04/msg00014.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
meissner@suse.dehttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-04/msg00022.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
meissner@suse.dehttps://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1156309Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-04/msg00014.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-04/msg00022.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1156309Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
SUSE SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 Version: nagios   <
openSUSE Factory Version: nagios   <
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