CVE-2013-4215 (GCVE-0-2013-4215)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2014-05-05 17:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 16:38
VLAI
Summary
The IPXPING_COMMAND in contrib/check_ipxping.c in Nagios Plugins 1.4.16 allows local users to gain privileges via a symlink attack on /tmp/ipxping/ipxping.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://tracker.nagios.org/view.php?id=451 x_refsource_MISC
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=957482 x_refsource_MISC
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q3/310 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://osvdb.org/96085 vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
Date Public
2013-08-07 00:00
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