CVE-2014-4701

NameCVE-2014-4701
DescriptionThe check_dhcp plugin in Nagios Plugins before 2.0.2 allows local users to obtain sensitive information from INI configuration files via the extra-opts flag, a different vulnerability than CVE-2014-4702.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
monitoring-plugins (PTS)buster2.2-6fixed
bullseye2.3.1-1fixed
bookworm2.3.3-5+deb12u2fixed
sid, trixie2.3.5-1fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
monitoring-pluginssource(unstable)(not affected)
nagios-pluginssource(unstable)(unfixed)unimportant

Notes

check_dhcp is not installed with root suid permissions in Debian
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/May/74
fixed in nagios-plugins 2.0.2 (but needs to be made complete to not open
CVE-2014-4703) and thus include the fix from 2.0.3 upstream.
- monitoring-plugins <not-affected> (Fixed with initial upload to Debian)
https://github.com/monitoring-plugins/monitoring-plugins/commit/48025ff39c3a78b7805bf803ac96730cef53e15c

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