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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2012-6096: Nagios: Multiple vulnerabilities

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2012-6096: Nagios: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
01/22/2013
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/30/2017
Modified
10/30/2017

Description

Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in the get_history function in history.cgi in Nagios Core before 3.4.4, and Icinga 1.6.x before 1.6.2, 1.7.x before 1.7.4, and 1.8.x before 1.8.4, might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long (1) host_name variable (host parameter) or (2) svc_description variable.

Solution(s)

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

References

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