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Nagios Content-Length Handling Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA19991
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Release Date:
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2006-05-08
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Popularity:
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8,500 views
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Critical:
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Highly critical
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Impact:
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DoS
System access
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Where:
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From remote
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| Software: | Nagios 1.x
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| CVE reference: | CVE-2006-2162
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Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in Nagios, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) and potentially compromise a vulnerable system.
The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error within the handling of HTTP data. This can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow by supplying a negative value for the "Content-Length" HTTP header.
The vulnerability has been reported in the 1.x and 2.x code branches.
Solution:
Update to the fixed versions.
http://www.nagios.org/download/
Nagios 1.x:
Update to version 1.4.
Nagios 2.x:
Update to version 2.3.
Provided and/or discovered by:
The vendor credits Sebastian Krahmer of the SuSE security team.
Original Advisory:
https://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/f...?thread_id=10297806&forum_id=7890
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