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[SECURITY] [DSA 1495-1] New nagios-plugins packages fix several vulnerabilities

From: Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm(at)debian.org>
Date: Tue Feb 12 2008 - 17:48:07 EST

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------------------------------------------------------------------------ Debian Security Advisory DSA-1495-1 security@debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/ Moritz Muehlenhoff February 12, 2008 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package        : nagios-plugins
Vulnerability  : buffer overflows
Problem type   : remote
Debian-specific: no
CVE Id(s)      : CVE-2007-5198 CVE-2007-5623

Several local/remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in two of the plugins for the Nagios network monitoring and management system. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems:

CVE-2007-5198 A buffer overflow has been discovered in the parser for HTTP Location headers (present in the check_http module).

CVE-2007-5623 A buffer overflow has been discovered in the check_snmp module.

For the stable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in version 1.4.5-1etch1.

For the old stable distribution (sarge), these problems have been fixed in version 1.4-6sarge1.

We recommend that you upgrade your nagios-plugins package.

Upgrade instructions

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wget url
        will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
        will install the referenced file.

Do you need help?

If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for sources.list as given below:

apt-get update

will update the internal database apt-get upgrade

will install corrected packages

You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the footer to the proper configuration.

Debian 3.1 (oldstable)

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Oldstable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, m68k, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc.

Source archives:

  
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nagios-plugins/nagios-plugins_1.4-6sarge1.dsc
    Size/MD5 checksum:      927 bd96c045610c5978605f2afc9dfb987c
  
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nagios-plugins/nagios-plugins_1.4-6sarge1.diff.gz
    Size/MD5 checksum:    21778 74cd27a521e5e7654cf2391aeee2deac
  
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nagios-plugins/nagios-plugins_1.4.orig.tar.gz
    Size/MD5 checksum:   973910 d46ae53154a228614629d50ea56d46b6

Do you need more help?

alpha architecture (DEC Alpha)

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nagios-plugins/nagios-plugins_1.4-6sarge1_alpha.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 514580 83623f3e2d62171a7e0f515283f437be

amd64 architecture (AMD x86_64 (AMD64))

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nagios-plugins/nagios-plugins_1.4-6sarge1_amd64.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 395554 3e8bb19e0b8de1078a306fd7761fe5c1

arm architecture (ARM)

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nagios-plugins/nagios-plugins_1.4-6sarge1_arm.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 379032 32300cc77a09ad8cdf55a2dfa5f7bc37

hppa architecture (HP PA RISC)

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nagios-plugins/nagios-plugins_1.4-6sarge1_hppa.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 392784 3e9f60bcc439f4bfd2854258c1f62d1a

Can we help you?

i386 architecture (Intel ia32)

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nagios-plugins/nagios-plugins_1.4-6sarge1_i386.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 334198 f045b9c68b6b1c791ffd5f1aaf89606e

ia64 architecture (Intel ia64)

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nagios-plugins/nagios-plugins_1.4-6sarge1_ia64.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 644134 640619b6d69d316a85e903b4042fafe0

m68k architecture (Motorola Mc680x0)

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nagios-plugins/nagios-plugins_1.4-6sarge1_m68k.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 336368 a5aea6422c93b79aec327446ae3e417b

mips architecture (MIPS (Big Endian))

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nagios-plugins/nagios-plugins_1.4-6sarge1_mips.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 544780 c5b5d8c8e7c1a35121664d0aa0995880

Can't find what you're looking for?

mipsel architecture (MIPS (Little Endian))

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nagios-plugins/nagios-plugins_1.4-6sarge1_mipsel.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 532688 a50f57072f656ab46a68d6fc4efc993b

powerpc architecture (PowerPC)

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nagios-plugins/nagios-plugins_1.4-6sarge1_powerpc.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 367568 a35ec66bd965bcef9ca041278405df44

s390 architecture (IBM S/390)

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nagios-plugins/nagios-plugins_1.4-6sarge1_s390.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 372064 0b3e8860d95b81c9c0f163006926613f

sparc architecture (Sun SPARC/UltraSPARC)

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nagios-plugins/nagios-plugins_1.4-6sarge1_sparc.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 349018 97a0f07fc2aa948921065c926bd3497c

Don't know where to look next?

Debian 4.0 (stable)

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Stable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc.