Debian DSA-1495-1 : nagios-plugins - buffer overflows

medium Nessus Plugin ID 31055

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Several local/remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in two of the plugins for the Nagios network monitoring and management system.
The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems :

- CVE-2007-5198 A buffer overflow has been discovered in the parser for HTTP Location headers (present in the check_http module).

- CVE-2007-5623 A buffer overflow has been discovered in the check_snmp module.

Solution

Upgrade the nagios-plugins package.

For the old stable distribution (sarge), these problems have been fixed in version 1.4-6sarge1.

For the stable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in version 1.4.5-1etch1.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 31055

File Name: debian_DSA-1495.nasl

Version: 1.17

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 2/14/2008

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.3

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:nagios-plugins, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:3.1, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:4.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Patch Publication Date: 2/12/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-5198, CVE-2007-5623

CWE: 119

DSA: 1495

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