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Gentoo: GLSA-200711-11 High: Nagios Plugins Remote Execution Threat

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Recent vulnerabilities in Nagios Plugins on Gentoo reveal two critical buffer overflow flaws that may allow for remote code execution. Users are urged to update without delay.
Two buffer overflow vulnerabilities in the Nagios Plugins might allow for remote execution of arbitrary code.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory                           GLSA 200711-11
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  Severity: High
     Title: Nagios Plugins: Two buffer overflows
      Date: November 08, 2007
      Bugs: #196308, #194178
        ID: 200711-11


Synopsis
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Two buffer overflow vulnerabilities in the Nagios Plugins might allow
for remote execution of arbitrary code.

Background
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The Nagios Plugins are an official set of plugins for Nagios, 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-plugins      < 1.4.10-r1         >= 1.4.10-r1

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