Gentoo: GLSA-200605-07 High: Nagios Remote Code Execution Risk
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May 7, 2006
Nagios is vulnerable to a buffer overflow which may lead to remote execution of arbitrary code.
Summary
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
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Nagios is vulnerable to a buffer overflow which may lead to remote
execution of arbitrary code.
Background
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Nagios is an open source host, service and network monitoring program.
Affected packages
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 net-analyzer/nagios-core < 1.4 >= 1.4
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Sebastian Krahmer of the SuSE security team discovered a buffer
overflow vulnerability in the handling of a negative HTTP
Content-Length header.
Impact
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A buffer overflow in Nagios CGI scrip...
Resolution
References
Availability
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