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Gentoo: GLSA-200505-17 Critical: Nagios Security Vulnerability

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Calendar Grey April 19, 2004
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Critical Gentoo security notice regarding monit flaws impacting HTTP access; prompt upgrade advised.
Two new vulnerabilities have been found in the HTTP interface of monit, possibly leading to denial of service or execution of arbitrary code.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200404-16 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: High Title: Multiple new security vulnerabilities in monit
Date: April 19, 2004 Bugs: #47631 ID: 200404-16

Synopsis ======= Two new vulnerabilities have been found in the HTTP interface of monit, possibly leading to denial of service or execution of arbitrary code.
Background ========= Monit is a system administration utility that allows management and monitoring of processes, files, directories and devices on a Unix system.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- app-admin/monit <= 4.2 >= 4.2.1
========== Monit has several vulnerabilities in its HTTP in...

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