metadata/glsa/glsa-201408-18.xml

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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201408-18">
  <title>NRPE: Multiple Vulnerabilities</title>
  <synopsis>Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in NRPE, the worst of
    which can allow execution of arbitrary code.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">nrpe</product>
  <announced>August 30, 2014</announced>
  <revised>August 30, 2014: 1</revised>
  <bug>397603</bug>
  <bug>459870</bug>
  <bug>508122</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="net-analyzer/nrpe" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">2.15</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">2.15</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>Nagios Remote Plugin Executor (NRPE) remotely executes Nagios plugins on
      other Linux/Unix machines.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in NRPE. Please review the
      CVE identifiers referenced below for details.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>A remote attacker can utilize multiple vectors to execute arbitrary
      code.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>All NRPE users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=net-analyzer/nrpe-2.15"
    </code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2013-1362">CVE-2013-1362</uri>
    <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-2913">CVE-2014-2913</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Fri, 21 Sep 2012 17:08:14 +0000">
    underling
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Sat, 30 Aug 2014 01:17:35 +0000">
    BlueKnight
  </metadata>
</glsa>