GSD-2014-4703

Vulnerability from gsd - Updated: 2023-12-13 01:22
Details
lib/parse_ini.c in Nagios Plugins 2.0.2 allows local users to obtain sensitive information via a symlink attack on the configuration file in the extra-opts flag. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2014-4701.
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CVE-2014-4703
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