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Debian 3.1 DSA 1072-1 Critical: Nagios Buffer Overflow Remote Exploit

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Calendar Grey May 22, 2006
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The advisory DSA 1567-2 from Debian highlights a significant security vulnerability in the Apache server that permits unauthorized remote access.
A buffer overflow has been discovered in nagios, a host, service and network monitoring and management system, that could be exploited by remote attackers to execute arbitrary code...

Summary


For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 1.3-cvs.20050402-2.sarge.2.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 1.4-1 and 2.3-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your nagios package.


Upgrade Instructions
- --------------------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

You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.


Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 alias sarge

Size/MD5 checksum: 1039 694c98817377c2543f7cbb2394393bd0
Size/MD5 checksum: 66757 72ca6d7f396866977e652382a6bfcf98
Size/MD5 checksum: 1621251 0f92b7b8e705411b7881d3650cbb5d56

Architecture independent components:

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