Out-of-Bounds Affecting nagios3 package, versions <3.5.1.dfsg-2.1ubuntu3.1


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Ubuntu security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
2.39% (90th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1610-NAGIOS3-326347
  • published15 Jan 2014
  • disclosed15 Jan 2014

Introduced: 15 Jan 2014

CVE-2013-7205  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Ubuntu:16.10 nagios3 to version 3.5.1.dfsg-2.1ubuntu3.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream nagios3 package and not the nagios3 package as distributed by Ubuntu. See How to fix? for Ubuntu:16.10 relevant fixed versions and status.

Off-by-one error in the process_cgivars function in contrib/daemonchk.c in Nagios Core 3.5.1, 4.0.2, and earlier allows remote authenticated users to obtain sensitive information from process memory or cause a denial of service (crash) via a long string in the last key value in the variable list, which triggers a heap-based buffer over-read.

CVSS Scores

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