Executive Summary
| Summary | |
|---|---|
| Title | nagios-plugins vulnerability |
| Informations | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Name | USN-532-1 | First vendor Publication | 2007-10-22 |
| Vendor | Ubuntu | Last vendor Modification | 2007-10-22 |
| Severity (Vendor) | N/A | Revision | N/A |
Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3
| Cvss vector : N/A | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Overall CVSS Score | NA | ||
| Base Score | NA | Environmental Score | NA |
| impact SubScore | NA | Temporal Score | NA |
| Exploitabality Sub Score | NA | ||
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2
| Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Cvss Base Score | 6.8 | Attack Range | Network |
| Cvss Impact Score | 6.4 | Attack Complexity | Medium |
| Cvss Expoit Score | 8.6 | Authentication | None Required |
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Detail
| A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases: Ubuntu 6.06 LTS This advisory also applies to the corresponding versions of Kubuntu, Edubuntu, and Xubuntu. The problem can be corrected by upgrading your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 6.06 LTS: In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to affect the necessary changes. Details follow: Nobuhiro Ban discovered that check_http in nagios-plugins did not properly sanitize its input when following redirection requests. A malicious remote web server could cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code as the user. (CVE-2007-5198) Aravind Gottipati discovered that sslutils.c in nagios-plugins did not properly reset pointers to NULL. A malicious remote web server could cause a denial of service. Aravind Gottipati discovered that check_http in nagios-plugins did not properly calculate how much memory to reallocate when following redirection requests. A malicious remote web server could cause a denial of service. |
Original Source
| Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-532-1 |
CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration
| % | Id | Name |
|---|---|---|
| 100 % | CWE-119 | Failure to Constrain Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer |
OVAL Definitions
| Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:17513 | |||
| Oval ID: | oval:org.mitre.oval:def:17513 | ||
| Title: | USN-532-1 -- nagios-plugins vulnerability | ||
| Description: | Nobuhiro Ban discovered that check_http in nagios-plugins did not properly sanitize its input when following redirection requests. | ||
| Family: | unix | Class: | patch |
| Reference(s): | USN-532-1 CVE-2007-5198 | Version: | 7 |
| Platform(s): | Ubuntu 6.06 | Product(s): | nagios-plugins |
| Definition Synopsis: | |||
OpenVAS Exploits
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2009-10-13 | Name : SLES10: Security update for nagios plugins File : nvt/sles10_nagios-plugins.nasl |
| 2009-10-10 | Name : SLES9: Security update for nagios plugins File : nvt/sles9p5018311.nasl |
| 2009-03-23 | Name : Ubuntu Update for nagios-plugins vulnerability USN-532-1 File : nvt/gb_ubuntu_USN_532_1.nasl |
| 2009-02-17 | Name : Fedora Update for nagios-plugins FEDORA-2008-3061 File : nvt/gb_fedora_2008_3061_nagios-plugins_fc8.nasl |
| 2009-02-17 | Name : Fedora Update for nagios FEDORA-2008-3098 File : nvt/gb_fedora_2008_3098_nagios_fc8.nasl |
| 2009-02-17 | Name : Fedora Update for nagios-plugins FEDORA-2008-3146 File : nvt/gb_fedora_2008_3146_nagios-plugins_fc7.nasl |
| 2008-09-24 | Name : Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200711-11 (nagios-plugins) File : nvt/glsa_200711_11.nasl |
| 2008-09-04 | Name : FreeBSD Ports: nagios-plugins File : nvt/freebsd_nagios-plugins.nasl |
| 2008-02-28 | Name : Debian Security Advisory DSA 1495-2 (nagios-plugins) File : nvt/deb_1495_2.nasl |
| 2008-02-15 | Name : Debian Security Advisory DSA 1495-1 (nagios-plugins) File : nvt/deb_1495_1.nasl |
Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)
| Id | Description |
|---|---|
| 41639 | Nagios Plugins check_http.c redir Function Location Header Response Overflow A remote overflow exists in Nagios Plugins. Nagios Plugins fails to check for a boundary in check_http.c in the redir function caused by an overly long HTTP location header response resulting in a buffer overflow. With a specially crafted request, an attacker can cause arbitrary code execution resulting in a loss of integrity. |
Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2009-09-24 | Name : The remote SuSE 9 host is missing a security-related patch. File : suse9_11953.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2008-04-18 | Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update. File : fedora_2008-3061.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2008-04-18 | Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update. File : fedora_2008-3098.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2008-04-18 | Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update. File : fedora_2008-3146.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2008-02-14 | Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update. File : debian_DSA-1495.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2007-12-13 | Name : The remote SuSE 10 host is missing a security-related patch. File : suse_nagios-plugins-4624.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2007-11-29 | Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update. File : suse_nagios-plugins-4621.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2007-11-10 | Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches. File : ubuntu_USN-532-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2007-11-09 | Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches. File : gentoo_GLSA-200711-11.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2007-10-15 | Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing a security-related update. File : freebsd_pkg_7453c85d783011dcb4c80016179b2dd5.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
Alert History
| Date | Informations |
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| 2014-02-17 12:04:42 |
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