Detections
Analytics
Ubuntu 6.06 LTS : nagios-plugins vulnerability (USN-532-1)
medium Nessus Plugin ID 28138
Synopsis
The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.Description
Nobuhiro Ban discovered that check_http in nagios-plugins did not properly sanitize its input when following redirection requests. A malicious remote web server could cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code as the user. (CVE-2007-5198)Aravind Gottipati discovered that sslutils.c in nagios-plugins did not properly reset pointers to NULL. A malicious remote web server could cause a denial of service.
Aravind Gottipati discovered that check_http in nagios-plugins did not properly calculate how much memory to reallocate when following redirection requests. A malicious remote web server could cause a denial of service.
Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
Solution
Update the affected nagios-plugins, nagios-plugins-basic and / or nagios-plugins-standard packages.See Also
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 28138
File Name: ubuntu_USN-532-1.nasl
Version: 1.15
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Ubuntu Local Security Checks
Published: 11/10/2007
Updated: 1/19/2021
Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 6.3
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 6.8
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:nagios-plugins-standard, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.06:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:nagios-plugins-basic, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:nagios-plugins
Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l
Patch Publication Date: 10/22/2007
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2007-5198