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Fedora EPEL Update Notification
FEDORA-EPEL-2020-fc983d39e7
2020-04-22 19:09:22.593593
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Name : nrpe
Product : Fedora EPEL 6
Version : 4.0.2
Release : 1.el6
URL :
http://www.nagios.org
Summary : Host/service/network monitoring agent for Nagios
Description :
Nrpe is a system daemon that will execute various Nagios plugins
locally on behalf of a remote (monitoring) host that uses the
check_nrpe plugin. Various plugins that can be executed by the
daemon are available at:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/nagiosplug
This package provides the core agent.
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Update Information:
New upstream version fixes CVEs
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ChangeLog:
* Tue Apr 7 2020 Martin Jackson <mhjacks(a)swbell.net> - 4.0.2-1
- New upstream version
- Update patch for indlude_dir
- Fix BZ#1816816 - CVE-2020-6582 nrpe: heap-based buffer overflow due to a wrong integer
type conversion
- Fix BZ#1816805 - CVE-2020-6581 nrpe: insufficient filtering and incorrect parsing of the
configuration file may lead to command injection
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #1816805 - CVE-2020-6581 nrpe: insufficient filtering and incorrect parsing of
the configuration file may lead to command injection [epel-all]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1816805
[ 2 ] Bug #1816816 - CVE-2020-6582 nrpe: heap-based buffer overflow due to a wrong
integer type conversion [epel-all]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1816816
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update programs. Use
su -c 'yum update nrpe' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "YUM", available at
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7\
/html/System_Administrators_Guide/ch-yum.html
All packages are signed with the Fedora EPEL GPG key. More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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