CVE-2013-4215

Publication date 5 May 2014

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

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.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
nagios-plugins 13.04 raring
Not affected
12.10 quantal
Not affected
12.04 LTS precise
Not affected
10.04 LTS lucid Ignored end of life

Notes

mdeslaur

we don't ship the check_ipxping script from the contrib/ directory in binary packages