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Gentoo: GLSA-200605-07 High: Nagios Remote Code Execution Risk

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Calendar Grey May 7, 2006
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Gentoo Linux warning issued regarding significant buffer overflow vulnerability in Nagios leading to potential remote code execution. Here’s how to effectively address this security concern.
Nagios is vulnerable to a buffer overflow which may lead to remote execution of arbitrary code.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200605-07 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: High Title: Nagios: Buffer overflow Date: May 07, 2006 Bugs: #132159 ID: 200605-07

Synopsis ======= Nagios is vulnerable to a buffer overflow which may lead to remote execution of arbitrary code.
Background ========= Nagios is an open source host, service and network monitoring program.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 net-analyzer/nagios-core < 1.4 >= 1.4
========== 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 scrip...

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