<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd"> <glsa id="200605-07"> <title>Nagios: Buffer overflow</title> <synopsis> Nagios is vulnerable to a buffer overflow which may lead to remote execution of arbitrary code. </synopsis> <product type="ebuild">nagios</product> <announced>2006-05-07</announced> <revised count="03">2006-05-25</revised> <bug>132159</bug> <bug>133487</bug> <access>remote</access> <affected> <package name="net-analyzer/nagios-core" auto="yes" arch="*"> <unaffected range="ge">1.4.1</unaffected> <vulnerable range="lt">1.4.1</vulnerable> </package> </affected> <background> <p> Nagios is an open source host, service and network monitoring program. </p> </background> <description> <p> Sebastian Krahmer of the SuSE security team discovered a buffer overflow vulnerability in the handling of a negative HTTP Content-Length header. </p> </description> <impact type="high"> <p> A buffer overflow in Nagios CGI scripts under certain web servers allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a negative content length HTTP header. </p> </impact> <workaround> <p> There is no known workaround at this time. </p> </workaround> <resolution> <p> All Nagios users should upgrade to the latest version: </p> <code> # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-analyzer/nagios-core-1.4.1"</code> </resolution> <references> <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-2162">CVE-2006-2162</uri> <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-2489">CVE-2006-2489</uri> </references> <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2006-05-04T17:10:32Z"> koon </metadata> <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2006-05-05T19:09:01Z"> fox2mike </metadata> <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2006-05-06T04:21:12Z"> jaervosz </metadata> </glsa>