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GLSA-200605-07 : Nagios: Buffer overflow

high Nessus Plugin ID 21349

Synopsis

The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200605-07 (Nagios: Buffer overflow)

 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.

Solution

All Nagios users should upgrade to the latest version:
 # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose '>=net-analyzer/nagios-core-1.4.1'

See Also

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/200605-07

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 21349

File Name: gentoo_GLSA-200605-07.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Published: 5/13/2006

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:nagios-core, cpe:/o:gentoo:linux

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Gentoo/release, Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list

Patch Publication Date: 5/7/2006

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/8/2006

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2006-2162, CVE-2006-2489

GLSA: 200605-07