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<glsa id="200711-11">
  <title>Nagios Plugins: Two buffer overflows</title>
  <synopsis>
    Two buffer overflow vulnerabilities in the Nagios Plugins might allow for
    remote execution of arbitrary code.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">nagios-plugins</product>
  <announced>November 08, 2007</announced>
  <revised>November 08, 2007: 01</revised>
  <bug>196308</bug>
  <bug>194178</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="net-analyzer/nagios-plugins" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">1.4.10-r1</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">1.4.10-r1</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    The Nagios Plugins are an official set of plugins for Nagios, an open
    source host, service and network monitoring program.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    fabiodds reported a boundary checking error in the "check_snmp" plugin
    when processing SNMP "GET" replies that could lead to a stack-based
    buffer overflow (CVE-2007-5623). Nobuhiro Ban reported a boundary
    checking error in the redir() function of the "check_http" plugin when
    processing HTTP "Location:" header information which might lead to a
    buffer overflow (CVE-2007-5198).
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="high">
    <p>
    A remote attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities to execute
    arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running Nagios or cause
    a Denial of Service by (1) sending a specially crafted SNMP "GET" reply
    to the Nagios daemon or (2) sending an overly long string in the
    "Location:" header of an HTTP reply. Note that to exploit (2), the
    malicious or compromised web server has to be configured in Nagios and
    the "-f" (follow) option has to be enabled.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    There is no known workaround at this time.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All users of the Nagios Plugins should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose &quot;&gt;=net-analyzer/nagios-plugins-1.4.10-r1&quot;</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-5198">CVE-2007-5198</uri>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-5623">CVE-2007-5623</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Sat, 03 Nov 2007 12:12:46 +0000">
    rbu
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Mon, 05 Nov 2007 00:16:27 +0000">
    rbu
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Wed, 07 Nov 2007 19:12:11 +0000">
    jaervosz
  </metadata>
</glsa>