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Gentoo: GLSA-200907-15 High: Arbitrary Command Execution in Nagios

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Calendar Grey July 19, 2009
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Several security flaws in Nagios on Gentoo may enable attackers to run unauthorized commands. Immediate upgrade necessary.
Multiple vulnerabilities in Nagios may lead to the execution of arbitrary code.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200907-15 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: High Title: Nagios: Execution of arbitrary code Date: July 19, 2009 Bugs: #245887, #249876, #275288 ID: 200907-15

Synopsis ======= Multiple vulnerabilities in Nagios may lead to the 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 < 3.0.6-r2 >= 3.0.6-r2
========== Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in Nagios:
* Paul reported that statuswml.cgi does not properly sanitize shell metacharacters in the (1) ping and (2) traceroute param...

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