GSD-2014-8994

Vulnerability from gsd - Updated: 2023-12-13 01:22
Details
The check_diskio plugin 3.2.6 and earlier for Nagios and Icinga allows local users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a temporary file with a predictable name (tmp/check_diskio_status-*-*).
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Aliases
CVE-2014-8994
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