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Tue, 03 Nov 2026 18:15:00 +0000
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| Description | 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. | |
| Title | Monitoring Plugins check_icmp: -H argument count overflow leads in setuid-root binary | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-190 CWE-787 |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
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Updated: 2026-11-03T18:06:25.699Z
Reserved: 2026-07-16T19:20:28.988Z
Link: CVE-2026-63418
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Status : Received
Published: 2026-11-03T18:18:03.533
Modified: 2026-11-03T18:18:03.533
Link: CVE-2026-63418
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