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Debian 4.0: DSA-1883-1 Critical: nagios2 Cross-Site Scripting

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Calendar Grey September 10, 2009
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Debian Security Bulletin DSA-1884-2 discloses vulnerabilities in apache2. Immediate upgrade is recommended for protection.
Several vulnerabilities have been found in nagios2, ahost/service/network monitoring and management system

Summary


Several cross-site scripting issues via several parameters were
discovered in the CGI scripts, allowing attackers to inject arbitrary
HTML code. In order to cover the different attack vectors, these issues
have been assigned CVE-2007-5624, CVE-2007-5803 and CVE-2008-1360.


For the oldstable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in
version 2.6-2+etch4.

The stable distribution (lenny) does not include nagios2 and nagios3 is
not affected by these problems.

The testing distribution (squeeze) and the unstable distribution (sid)
do not contain nagios2 and nagios3 is not affected by these problems.


We recommend that you upgrade your nagios2 packages.


Upgrade instructions
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wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.

If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:

apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages

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