DSA-1495-1 nagios-plugins -- buffer overflows

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1495-1 nagios-plugins -- buffer overflows

Date Reported:

12 Feb 2008

Affected Packages:

nagios-plugins

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2007-5198, CVE-2007-5623.

More information:

Several local/remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in two of the plugins for the Nagios network monitoring and management system. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems:

• CVE-2007-5198

  A buffer overflow has been discovered in the parser for HTTP Location headers (present in the check_http module).

• CVE-2007-5623

  A buffer overflow has been discovered in the check_snmp module.

For the old stable distribution (sarge), these problems have been fixed in version 1.4-6sarge1.

For the stable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in version 1.4.5-1etch4.

We recommend that you upgrade your nagios-plugins package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (oldstable)

Source:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nagios-plugins/nagios-plugins_1.4-6sarge1.dsc

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nagios-plugins/nagios-plugins_1.4-6sarge1.diff.gz

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nagios-plugins/nagios-plugins_1.4.orig.tar.gz

Alpha:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nagios-plugins/nagios-plugins_1.4-6sarge1_alpha.deb

AMD64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nagios-plugins/nagios-plugins_1.4-6sarge1_amd64.deb

ARM:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nagios-plugins/nagios-plugins_1.4-6sarge1_arm.deb

HP Precision:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nagios-plugins/nagios-plugins_1.4-6sarge1_hppa.deb

Intel IA-32:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nagios-plugins/nagios-plugins_1.4-6sarge1_i386.deb

Intel IA-64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nagios-plugins/nagios-plugins_1.4-6sarge1_ia64.deb

Motorola 680x0:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nagios-plugins/nagios-plugins_1.4-6sarge1_m68k.deb

Big-endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nagios-plugins/nagios-plugins_1.4-6sarge1_mips.deb

Little-endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nagios-plugins/nagios-plugins_1.4-6sarge1_mipsel.deb

PowerPC:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nagios-plugins/nagios-plugins_1.4-6sarge1_powerpc.deb

IBM S/390:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nagios-plugins/nagios-plugins_1.4-6sarge1_s390.deb

Sun Sparc:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nagios-plugins/nagios-plugins_1.4-6sarge1_sparc.deb

Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (stable)

Source:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nagios-plugins/nagios-plugins_1.4.5.orig.tar.gz

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nagios-plugins/nagios-plugins_1.4.5-1etch4.diff.gz

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nagios-plugins/nagios-plugins_1.4.5-1etch4.dsc

Alpha:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nagios-plugins/nagios-plugins-basic_1.4.5-1etch4_alpha.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nagios-plugins/nagios-plugins_1.4.5-1etch4_alpha.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nagios-plugins/nagios-plugins-standard_1.4.5-1etch4_alpha.deb

AMD64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nagios-plugins/nagios-plugins-basic_1.4.5-1etch4_amd64.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nagios-plugins/nagios-plugins-standard_1.4.5-1etch4_amd64.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nagios-plugins/nagios-plugins_1.4.5-1etch4_amd64.deb

ARM:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nagios-plugins/nagios-plugins-standard_1.4.5-1etch4_arm.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nagios-plugins/nagios-plugins-basic_1.4.5-1etch4_arm.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nagios-plugins/nagios-plugins_1.4.5-1etch4_arm.deb

HP Precision:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nagios-plugins/nagios-plugins_1.4.5-1etch4_hppa.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nagios-plugins/nagios-plugins-basic_1.4.5-1etch4_hppa.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nagios-plugins/nagios-plugins-standard_1.4.5-1etch4_hppa.deb

Intel IA-32:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nagios-plugins/nagios-plugins-standard_1.4.5-1etch4_i386.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nagios-plugins/nagios-plugins_1.4.5-1etch4_i386.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nagios-plugins/nagios-plugins-basic_1.4.5-1etch4_i386.deb

Intel IA-64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nagios-plugins/nagios-plugins_1.4.5-1etch4_ia64.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nagios-plugins/nagios-plugins-basic_1.4.5-1etch4_ia64.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nagios-plugins/nagios-plugins-standard_1.4.5-1etch4_ia64.deb

Big-endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nagios-plugins/nagios-plugins-basic_1.4.5-1etch4_mips.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nagios-plugins/nagios-plugins_1.4.5-1etch4_mips.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nagios-plugins/nagios-plugins-standard_1.4.5-1etch4_mips.deb

Little-endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nagios-plugins/nagios-plugins-standard_1.4.5-1etch4_mipsel.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nagios-plugins/nagios-plugins-basic_1.4.5-1etch4_mipsel.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nagios-plugins/nagios-plugins_1.4.5-1etch4_mipsel.deb

PowerPC:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nagios-plugins/nagios-plugins-basic_1.4.5-1etch4_powerpc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nagios-plugins/nagios-plugins_1.4.5-1etch4_powerpc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nagios-plugins/nagios-plugins-standard_1.4.5-1etch4_powerpc.deb

IBM S/390:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nagios-plugins/nagios-plugins_1.4.5-1etch4_s390.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nagios-plugins/nagios-plugins-standard_1.4.5-1etch4_s390.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nagios-plugins/nagios-plugins-basic_1.4.5-1etch4_s390.deb

Sun Sparc:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nagios-plugins/nagios-plugins_1.4.5-1etch4_sparc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nagios-plugins/nagios-plugins-basic_1.4.5-1etch4_sparc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nagios-plugins/nagios-plugins-standard_1.4.5-1etch4_sparc.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.