High advisory for Monitoring Plugins

Advisory overview

Monitoring Plugins is a suite of plugins for monitoring applications. From 3.0.0-rc1 until 3.0.1, check_icmp stores the number of hosts supplied through -H or --Host on the command line, or through --extra-opts files containing Host= entries, in an unsigned short. More than 65,535 hosts wrap the counter, causing process_arguments() to allocate an undersized hosts array and then write subsequent entries out of bounds before main() calls setuid(getuid()). On installations where check_icmp is setuid root, a local low-privileged attacker can corrupt heap memory while the process still has root privileges; reliable privilege escalation has not been demonstrated. Installations that use cap_net_raw file capabilities instead of setuid are not exposed to the privilege-escalation consequence. This issue is fixed in version 3.0.1.

Related references

• https://github.com/monitoring-plugins/monitoring-plugins/commit/c35c12e58d326ffbd6cfb3c9097653f9f3fb2f4a
• https://github.com/monitoring-plugins/monitoring-plugins/releases/tag/v3.0.1
• https://github.com/monitoring-plugins/monitoring-plugins/security/advisories/GHSA-xvvw-4j77-rp7q