Out-of-Bounds The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package nagios3  (opens in a new tab)


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Exploit Maturity
Proof of Concept
EPSS
66.45% (100th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1410-NAGIOS3-641315
  • published10 Sept 2020
  • disclosed22 Jan 2013

Introduced: 22 Jan 2013

CVE-2012-6096  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:14.10.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream nagios3 package and not the nagios3 package as distributed by Ubuntu.

Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in the get_history function in history.cgi in Nagios Core before 3.4.4, and Icinga 1.6.x before 1.6.2, 1.7.x before 1.7.4, and 1.8.x before 1.8.4, might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long (1) host_name variable (host parameter) or (2) svc_description variable.