Off-by-one error in the process_cgivars function in contrib/daemonchk.c in Nagios Core 3.5.1, 4.0.2, and earlier allows remote authenticated users to obtain sensitive information from process memory or cause a denial of service (crash) via a long string in the last key value in the variable list, which triggers a heap-based buffer over-read.
CVSS Details
- CVSS 3.1 Base Score: 5.4
Covered by Rapid7
| Product | Vendor Advisory | Solution File | Added | Published |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alpine Linux | — | Upgrade nagios | Mar 21, 2024 | Jan 14, 2014 |
| Amazon_linux | — | Upgrade nagios | Oct 3, 2017 | Jan 15, 2014 |
| Debian | — | Upgrade nagios3 | Feb 20, 2019 | Jan 15, 2014 |
| Freebsd | — | Upgrade nagios | Dec 10, 2025 | Jan 14, 2014 |
| Gentoo Linux | — | Upgrade net-analyzer/nagios-core. | Oct 30, 2017 | Jan 15, 2014 |
| Ubuntu | — | Upgrade nagios3-coreUpgrade nagios3-cgi | Apr 5, 2017 | Jan 15, 2014 |
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