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Debian 4.0 DSA-1495-1 Critical: Nagios Plugins Remote Buffer Overflow

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Calendar Grey February 12, 2008
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A critical security flaw in the nagios-plugins for Debian platforms necessitates immediate patching to ensure system safety.
A buffer overflow has been discovered in the parser for HTTP Location headers (present in the check_http module).

Summary


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 stable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in
version 1.4.5-1etch1.

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

We recommend that you upgrade your nagios-plugins package.

Upgrade instructions
- --------------------wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.

If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:

apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages

You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.


Debian 3.1 (oldstable)
- ----------------------Oldstable updates are available fo...

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