Debian DSA-1883-1 : nagios2 - missing input sanitising

medium Nessus Plugin ID 44748

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Several vulnerabilities have been found in nagios2, a host/service/network monitoring and management system. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems :

Several cross-site scripting issues via several parameters were discovered in the CGI scripts, allowing attackers to inject arbitrary HTML code. In order to cover the different attack vectors, these issues have been assigned CVE-2007-5624, CVE-2007-5803 and CVE-2008-1360.

Solution

Upgrade the nagios2 packages.

For the oldstable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in version 2.6-2+etch4.

The stable distribution (lenny) does not include nagios2, and nagios3 is not affected by these problems.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 44748

File Name: debian_DSA-1883.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 2/24/2010

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.8

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:4.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:nagios2

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Patch Publication Date: 9/10/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-5624, CVE-2007-5803, CVE-2008-1360

CWE: 79

DSA: 1883

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