| Summary: | <net-analyzer/nagios-core-3.5.1: "process_cgivars()" Off-By-One Vulnerability | ||
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| Product: | Gentoo Security | Reporter: | Agostino Sarubbo <ago> |
| Component: | Vulnerabilities | Assignee: | Gentoo Security <security> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
| Severity: | minor | CC: | sysadmin |
| Priority: | Normal | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| URL: | https://secunia.com/advisories/55976/ | ||
| Whiteboard: | B3 [glsa] | ||
| Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
Added with bump to 3.5.1, stabilization requested in bug 501200. Arches, Thank you for your work Maintainer(s), please drop the vulnerable version(s). GLSA Vote: No Adding to existing GLSA request. This issue was resolved and addressed in GLSA 201412-23 at http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201412-23.xml by GLSA coordinator Sean Amoss (ackle). |
From ${URL} : Description A vulnerability has been reported in Nagios, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service). The vulnerability is caused due to an off-by-one error within the "process_cgivars()" function and can be exploited to cause an out of bounds read memory access by sending a specially crafted key value. Solution: Fixed in the git repository. Provided and/or discovered by: Disclosed in a git commit. Original Advisory: http://sourceforge.net/p/nagios/nagioscore/ci/d97e03f32741a7d851826b03ed73ff4c9612a866/ @maintainer(s): after the bump, in case we need to stabilize the package, please let us know if it is ready for the stabilization or not.