Alpine: multiple nagios packages: security update to 3.4.1-r0 (deprecated)

critical Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 401246

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

- Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in the get_history function in history.cgi in Nagios Core before
3.4.4, and Icinga 1.6.x before 1.6.2, 1.7.x before 1.7.4, and 1.8.x before 1.8.4, might allow remote
attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long (1) host_name variable (host parameter) or (2)
svc_description variable. (CVE-2012-6096)

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 401246

Version: Revision 1.24

Type: Local

Family: Alpine Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 8/16/2023

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.7

Percentile: 99.19

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2012-6096

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 9.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:F/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/12/2013

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/9/2012

Exploitable With

Core Impact

Metasploit (Nagios3 history.cgi Host Command Execution)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-6096

BID: 56879

Detections

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