Archiv für Juli 2010

Just found an interesting article over at TechRepublic. Toni Bowers, Head Blogs Editor of TechRepublic is reporting about this over at their site. Just read the full post
Today, nagios issued a security notice about CSRF and XSS Exploits regarding their product. You can read the original notice below:
The Nagios Team was notified last week about security exploits in Nagios XI that could potentially compromise a Nagios XI deployment. This message contains information about the exploits, as well as information related to mitigating these problems. We recommend that all Nagios XI users upgrade to the latest release to resolve these issues.
Security Exploit Details
The security vendor that notified us indicated that Nagios XI 2009R1.2B and earlier were vulnerable to Cross Site Scripting (XSS) and Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) exploits.
In order to help prevent current Nagios XI users from malicious attacks, we will not be releasing the details of exploits. However, the exploits allowed the vendor to craft requests to Nagios XI that ultimately created a PHP-based shell program that ran as the Apache user. This would allow an attacker to run arbitrary commands as the Apache user and potentially expose sensitive information.
What We Are Doing
Upon receiving the notice from the security vendor, we made changes to the Nagios XI code and released a new 2009R1.2C version that we believe fixes the problems that were reported. We have asked the vendor the re-verify the security test using the 2009R1.2C release. If the vendor reports additional problems with the latest release, we will work quickly to solve the problem and notify you of additional fixes and updates.
What Should You Do?
We recommend that Nagios XI users immediately upgrade to the latest 2009R1.2C release of Nagios XI. This release contains changes that we believe resolve the security risks reported to us.
2009R1.2C is a free upgrade for all Nagios XI users – including customers and users currently evaluating Nagios XI.
Instructions on how to upgrade your Nagios XI instance can be found in the following document:
Nagios XI Upgrade Instructions
Additional Assistance
If you encounter problems with the upgrade to 2009R1.2C, please contact our technical support team by posted to our online support forum at:
http://support.nagios.com/forum
If you have any questions about the information provided in this email please contact us.
Phone: 1-888-624-4671
So, let’s get your installation updated.
… glaub ich hier mal umzubauen. Ursprünglich hatte ich geplant zweisprachig zu bloggen, allerdings ist der Aufwand derart immens jeden Artikel zweisprachig zu erstellen, dass ich zukünftig die Artikel je nach Inhalt mal so oder so machen werde. Desweiteren müssen die ganzen Plugins mal aufgeräumt werden und eventuell sollte noch ein ansprechenderes Layout her. Alles Neue macht also nicht der Mai, sondern in diesem Fall wohl der Juli oder auch erst der August. Mal sehen wie es am Ende aussehen wird.
The Nagios Team was notified last week about security exploits in Nagios XI that could potentially compromise a Nagios XI deployment. This message contains information about the exploits, as well as information related to mitigating these problems. We recommend that all Nagios XI users upgrade to the latest release to resolve these issues.
