DSA-1072-1 nagios -- buffer overflow

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1072-1 nagios -- buffer overflow

Date Reported:

22 May 2006

Affected Packages:

nagios

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 366682, Bug 366683, Bug 368193.
In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ID 17879.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2006-2162, CVE-2006-2489.

More information:

A buffer overflow has been discovered in nagios, a host, service and network monitoring and management system, that could be exploited by remote attackers to execute arbitrary code.

The old stable distribution (woody) does not contain nagios packages.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 1.3-cvs.20050402-2.sarge.2.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 1.4-1 and 2.3-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your nagios package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)

Source:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nagios/nagios_1.3-cvs.20050402-2.sarge.2.dsc

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nagios/nagios_1.3-cvs.20050402-2.sarge.2.diff.gz

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nagios/nagios_1.3-cvs.20050402.orig.tar.gz

Architecture-independent component:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nagios/nagios-common_1.3-cvs.20050402-2.sarge.2_all.deb

Alpha:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nagios/nagios-mysql_1.3-cvs.20050402-2.sarge.2_alpha.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nagios/nagios-pgsql_1.3-cvs.20050402-2.sarge.2_alpha.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nagios/nagios-text_1.3-cvs.20050402-2.sarge.2_alpha.deb

AMD64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nagios/nagios-mysql_1.3-cvs.20050402-2.sarge.2_amd64.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nagios/nagios-pgsql_1.3-cvs.20050402-2.sarge.2_amd64.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nagios/nagios-text_1.3-cvs.20050402-2.sarge.2_amd64.deb

ARM:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nagios/nagios-mysql_1.3-cvs.20050402-2.sarge.2_arm.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nagios/nagios-pgsql_1.3-cvs.20050402-2.sarge.2_arm.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nagios/nagios-text_1.3-cvs.20050402-2.sarge.2_arm.deb

Intel IA-32:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nagios/nagios-mysql_1.3-cvs.20050402-2.sarge.2_i386.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nagios/nagios-pgsql_1.3-cvs.20050402-2.sarge.2_i386.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nagios/nagios-text_1.3-cvs.20050402-2.sarge.2_i386.deb

Intel IA-64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nagios/nagios-mysql_1.3-cvs.20050402-2.sarge.2_ia64.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nagios/nagios-pgsql_1.3-cvs.20050402-2.sarge.2_ia64.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nagios/nagios-text_1.3-cvs.20050402-2.sarge.2_ia64.deb

HPPA:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nagios/nagios-mysql_1.3-cvs.20050402-2.sarge.2_hppa.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nagios/nagios-pgsql_1.3-cvs.20050402-2.sarge.2_hppa.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nagios/nagios-text_1.3-cvs.20050402-2.sarge.2_hppa.deb

Motorola 680x0:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nagios/nagios-mysql_1.3-cvs.20050402-2.sarge.2_m68k.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nagios/nagios-pgsql_1.3-cvs.20050402-2.sarge.2_m68k.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nagios/nagios-text_1.3-cvs.20050402-2.sarge.2_m68k.deb

Big endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nagios/nagios-mysql_1.3-cvs.20050402-2.sarge.2_mips.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nagios/nagios-pgsql_1.3-cvs.20050402-2.sarge.2_mips.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nagios/nagios-text_1.3-cvs.20050402-2.sarge.2_mips.deb

Little endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nagios/nagios-mysql_1.3-cvs.20050402-2.sarge.2_mipsel.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nagios/nagios-pgsql_1.3-cvs.20050402-2.sarge.2_mipsel.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nagios/nagios-text_1.3-cvs.20050402-2.sarge.2_mipsel.deb

PowerPC:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nagios/nagios-mysql_1.3-cvs.20050402-2.sarge.2_powerpc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nagios/nagios-pgsql_1.3-cvs.20050402-2.sarge.2_powerpc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nagios/nagios-text_1.3-cvs.20050402-2.sarge.2_powerpc.deb

IBM S/390:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nagios/nagios-mysql_1.3-cvs.20050402-2.sarge.2_s390.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nagios/nagios-pgsql_1.3-cvs.20050402-2.sarge.2_s390.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nagios/nagios-text_1.3-cvs.20050402-2.sarge.2_s390.deb

Sun Sparc:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nagios/nagios-mysql_1.3-cvs.20050402-2.sarge.2_sparc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nagios/nagios-pgsql_1.3-cvs.20050402-2.sarge.2_sparc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nagios/nagios-text_1.3-cvs.20050402-2.sarge.2_sparc.deb

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