Bug 1665204 (CVE-2018-13457)

Summary:	CVE-2018-13457 nagios: NULL pointer dereference in qh_echo in base/query-handler.c
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Laura Pardo <lpardo>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
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Version:	unspecified	CC:	sisharma, vbellur
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Bug Depends On:	1665206, 1665207
Bug Blocks:	1665202

Description Laura Pardo 2019-01-10 16:59:04 UTC

A flaw was found in Nagios Core version 4.4.1 and earlier. The qh_echo function is prone to a NULL pointer dereference vulnerability, which allows attacker to cause a local denial-of-service condition by sending a crafted payload to the listening UNIX socket.


References:
https://github.com/NagiosEnterprises/nagioscore/commit/b1a92a3b52d292ccb601e77a0b29cb1e67ac9d76

Comment 1 Laura Pardo 2019-01-10 16:59:32 UTC

Created nagios tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 1665207]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1665206]

Comment 3 Jason Shepherd 2019-08-08 05:48:58 UTC

This vulnerability is out of security support scope for the following product:

 * Red Hat Mobile Application Platform

 Please refer to https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/rhmap for more details

Comment 4 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-08-08 07:18:32 UTC

This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s):

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2018-13457