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Message-ID: <547C2A3D.1060904@reactos.org>
Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2014 09:43:41 +0100
From: Pierre Schweitzer <pierre@...ctos.org>
To: cve-assign@...re.org
CC: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: CVE request for check_diskio nagios/icinga plugin

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Thanks.

The author reported the vulnerability got fixed and a new version,
3.2.7, including the fix has been released.

Cheers,
Pierre

On 11/20/2014 07:58 AM, cve-assign@...re.org wrote:
>> The check_diskio plugin for nagios/icinga from Matteo Corti 
>> (https://svn.id.ethz.ch/nagios_plugins/check_diskio/) is subject
>> to a /tmp symlink race attack in its latest version (and versions
>> before as well).
> 
>> This plugin is used to monitor the I/Os on device on Linux
>> systems. To be able to make a diff between two calls, it keeps
>> the latest readings into a fixed pattern file name:
>> /tmp/check_diskio_status-$user-$device
> 
>> It does not check for the file being a symlink
> 
> Use CVE-2014-8994.
> 
> 

- -- 
Pierre Schweitzer <pierre@...ctos.org>
System & Network Administrator
Senior Kernel Developer
ReactOS Deutschland e.V.
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