Re: Re-emergence of CVE-2008-4796 in Nagios current

[David Jorm <djorm () redhat com>]

> CVE-2008-4796 snoopy: command execution via shell metacharacters
>
> Was found in Nagios core by Grant Murphy.
>
> Filed upstream: http://tracker.nagios.org/view.php?id=449
>
> We really need to start thinking about ways to find vulnerable copies
> of code and fixing them everywhere people have embedded them.

Debian uses clonewise:

https://github.com/silviocesare/Clonewise

It is the best solution I've seen so far. It's been on my TODO list forever and a day to get it running for Fedora.

David