Out-of-Bounds Affecting nagios package, versions [,3.4.4)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of Concept
EPSS
78.09% (99th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-NAGIOS-2370111
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed22 Jan 2013
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 22 Jan 2013

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

How to fix?

Upgrade nagios to version 3.4.4 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds. 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.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1