From 6c4e7dce2a7baf62c4208b1d22992155c6123d6b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Holger Weiss Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2026 18:05:53 +0200 Subject: Use backticks for plugin names Mainly because the have an underscore in their name, which has a meaning in Markdown. --- web/input/news/release-3-0-1.md | 12 ++++++------ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) (limited to 'web/input') diff --git a/web/input/news/release-3-0-1.md b/web/input/news/release-3-0-1.md index 80fed77..b0b8e76 100644 --- a/web/input/news/release-3-0-1.md +++ b/web/input/news/release-3-0-1.md @@ -5,14 +5,14 @@ date: 2026-07-01 The Monitoring Plugins Development Team announces version 3.0.1 of the Monitoring Plugins. -This is a security release which fixes a vulnerability in 'check_icmp'. +This is a security release which fixes a vulnerability in `check_icmp`. This release primarily fixes a potential local privilege escalation -vulnerability in 'check_icmp'. +vulnerability in `check_icmp`. Due to errors in how memory was managed and number were compared (yay, C!) it might be possible to execute arbirary code during the execution -of 'check_icmp' which sometimes is a setuid binary and would therefore +of `check_icmp` which sometimes is a setuid binary and would therefore allow executing things with `root` priviledges. We thank Christopher Kreft for reporting the problem. @@ -30,15 +30,15 @@ There are some other changes which come with this release: This mimics the pre 3.0.0 behaviour. ### Specific changes - * check_curl + * `check_curl` * Populate the DNS cache correctly when using proxies with local hostname resolution The faulty behaviour was introduced during a refactor of the code. * Some other fixes and small improvements - * check_mysql_query + * `check_mysql_query` * A new option `--queryname` (similar to `check_pgsql`) allows to overwrite the query in the ouput, either to hide it or just replace it with something more useful/pleasing - * check_mysql + * `check_mysql` * Fix incorrect casing of the MariaDB name -- cgit v1.2.3-74-g34f1