{"id":"MGASA-2017-0437","summary":"Updated nagios packages fix security vulnerability","details":"It was found that nagios daemon creates its PID file after dropping\nprivileges, which allows to change its content by non-root user with PID\nof any other process, resulting into denial-of-service when daemon is\nstopped (CVE-2017-12847).\n\nNote that the nagios package on Mageia 5 is no longer supported.  Users\nof this package should upgrade to Mageia 6.\n","modified":"2026-04-16T06:25:01.587076893Z","published":"2017-12-01T23:13:21Z","upstream":["CVE-2017-12847"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2017-0437.html"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22049"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/WYI2Q2GXM5Z4DQCQSU2GUHC6AUDK7HK3/"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"nagios","ecosystem":"Mageia:6","purl":"pkg:rpm/mageia/nagios?arch=source&distro=mageia-6"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"4.3.1-2.1.mga6"}]}],"ecosystem_specific":{"section":"core"},"database_specific":{"source":"https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2017-0437.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","credits":[{"name":"Mageia","contact":["https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Packages_Security_Team"],"type":"COORDINATOR"}]}