GLSA 200605-07: Nagios: Buffer overflow
Severity: | high |
Title: | Nagios: Buffer overflow |
Date: | 05/07/2006 |
Bugs: |
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ID: | 200605-07 |
Synopsis
Nagios is vulnerable to a buffer overflow which may lead to remote execution of arbitrary code.Background
Nagios is an open source host, service and network monitoring program.
Affected packages
Package | Vulnerable | Unaffected | Architecture(s) |
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net-analyzer/nagios-core | < 1.4.1 | >= 1.4.1 | All supported architectures |
Description
Sebastian Krahmer of the SuSE security team discovered a buffer overflow vulnerability in the handling of a negative HTTP Content-Length header.
Impact
A buffer overflow in Nagios CGI scripts under certain web servers allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a negative content length HTTP header.
Workaround
There is no known workaround at this time.
Resolution
All Nagios users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-analyzer/nagios-core-1.4.1"
References
Availability
This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website:
Concerns?
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License
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