Leo Famulari <l...@famulari.name> skribis:

> On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 10:31:09PM +0000, Ludovic Court�s wrote:
>> civodul pushed a commit to branch master
>> in repository guix.
>> 
>> commit d30e578a0011b05d1e7d8b3ba7ee38588eba301c
>> Author: Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org>
>> Date:   Wed Nov 30 23:26:57 2016 +0100
>> 
>>     gnu: Add Nagios.
>>     
>>     * gnu/packages/monitoring.scm: New file.
>>     * gnu/local.mk (GNU_SYSTEM_MODULES): Add it.
>
>> +    (version "4.0.8")
>> +    ;; XXX: Newer versions such as 4.2.3 bundle a copy of AngularJS.
>
> This version of Nagios includes some severe security vulnerabilities:
>
> https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-9566
> https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-9565
>
> They allow remote attackers to read and write arbitrary files (leading
> to remote code execution) or to escalate privilege to the superuser.
>
> What should we do?

We should upgrade, even if that means bundling AngularJS (there’s no
other way :-/).  I’ll look into it ASAP.

Thanks for the reminder!

Ludo’.

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