ID:3872 - Exploit for Link following in Nagios - CVE-2016-8641

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Vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a local authenticated user to execute arbitrary code.

A privilege escalation vulnerability was found in nagios 4.2.x that occurs in daemon-init.in when creating necessary files and insecurely changing the ownership afterwards. It's possible for the local attacker to create symbolic links before the files are to be created and possibly escalating the privileges with the ownership change.

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