Out-of-bounds Write The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package nagios-nrpe  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU2004-NAGIOSNRPE-635059
  • published17 Mar 2020
  • disclosed16 Mar 2020

Introduced: 16 Mar 2020

CVE-2020-6582  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:20.04.

NVD Description

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

Nagios NRPE 3.2.1 has a Heap-Based Buffer Overflow, as demonstrated by interpretation of a small negative number as a large positive number during a bzero call.