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Debian: DSA-2616-1 Moderate: Nagios3 Buffer Overflow Risk

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Calendar Grey February 3, 2013
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Enhance nagios3 to rectify a buffer overflow vulnerability impacting service tracking, which could lead to possible application failures.
A buffer overflow problem has been found in nagios3, a host/service/network monitoring and management system

Summary

A buffer overflow problem has been found in nagios3, a host/service/network
monitoring and management system. A mailicious client could craft a
request to history.cgi and cause application crashes.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in
version 3.2.1-2+squeeze1.

For the testing distribution (wheezy), this problem will be fixed soon.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 3.4.1-3.

We recommend that you upgrade your nagios3 packages.

Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: http://www.debian.org/security/



Package: nagios3
CVE ID: CVE-2012-6096

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