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[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2013:0624-1: important: NRPE metacharacter filtering omission

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Date: Thu Apr 04 2013 - 11:04:33 CDT


   openSUSE Security Update: NRPE metacharacter filtering omission
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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2013:0624-1
Rating: important
References: #807241
Cross-References: CVE-2013-1362
Affected Products:
                    openSUSE 11.4
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   An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

Description:

   NRPE (the Nagios Remote Plug-In Executor) allows the
   passing of $() to plugins/scripts which, if run under bash,
   will execute that shell command under a subprocess and pass
   the output as a parameter to the called script. Using this,
   it is possible to get called scripts, such as check_http,
   to execute arbitrary commands under the uid that
   NRPE/nagios is running as (typically, 'nagios').

   With this update NRPE will deny remote requests
   containing a bash command substitution.

Patch Instructions:

   To install this openSUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.
   Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

   - openSUSE 11.4:

      zypper in -t patch 2013-55

   To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".

Package List:

   - openSUSE 11.4 (i586 x86_64):

      nagios-nrpe-2.12-25.2
      nagios-nrpe-debuginfo-2.12-25.2
      nagios-nrpe-debugsource-2.12-25.2
      nagios-nrpe-doc-2.12-25.2
      nagios-plugins-nrpe-2.12-25.2
      nagios-plugins-nrpe-debuginfo-2.12-25.2

References:

   http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-1362.html
   https://bugzilla.novell.com/807241

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