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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2006-2489: Nagios: Buffer overflow

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2006-2489: Nagios: Buffer overflow

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
05/19/2006
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/30/2017
Modified
10/30/2017

Description

Integer overflow in CGI scripts in Nagios 1.x before 1.4.1 and 2.x before 2.3.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a content length (Content-Length) HTTP header. NOTE: this is a different vulnerability than CVE-2006-2162.

Solution(s)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-net-analyzer-nagios-core

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