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From: Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen <jaervosz@g.o>
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Subject: [gentoo-announce] [ GLSA 200605-07 ] Nagios: Buffer overflow
Date: Sun, 07 May 2006 18:58:42
Message-Id: 200605072026.04119.jaervosz@gentoo.org
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2 Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200605-07
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7 Severity: High
8 Title: Nagios: Buffer overflow
9 Date: May 07, 2006
10 Bugs: #132159
11 ID: 200605-07
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15 Synopsis
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18 Nagios is vulnerable to a buffer overflow which may lead to remote
19 execution of arbitrary code.
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21 Background
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24 Nagios is an open source host, service and network monitoring program.
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26 Affected packages
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30 Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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32 1 net-analyzer/nagios-core < 1.4 >= 1.4
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34 Description
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37 Sebastian Krahmer of the SuSE security team discovered a buffer
38 overflow vulnerability in the handling of a negative HTTP
39 Content-Length header.
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41 Impact
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44 A buffer overflow in Nagios CGI scripts under certain web servers
45 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a negative
46 content length HTTP header.
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48 Workaround
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51 There is no known workaround at this time.
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53 Resolution
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56 All Nagios users should upgrade to the latest version:
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58 # emerge --sync
59 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-analyzer/nagios-core-1.4"
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61 References
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64 [ 1 ] CVE-2006-2162
65 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-2162
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67 Availability
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70 This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at
71 the Gentoo Security Website:
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73 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200605-07.xml
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75 Concerns?
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78 Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the
79 confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost
80 importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to
81 security@g.o or alternatively, you may file a bug at
82 http://bugs.gentoo.org.
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84 License
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87 Copyright 2006 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text
88 belongs to its owner(s).
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90 The contents of this document are licensed under the
91 Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license.
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93 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0