Bug 488118 (CVE-2008-6373)

Summary:	CVE-2008-6373 nagios: unspecified vuln related to CGI programs
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Vincent Danen <vdanen>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED UPSTREAM	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	mmcgrath, ocs2
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2008-6373
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Description Vincent Danen 2009-03-02 19:27:47 UTC

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier  to
the following vulnerability:

Name: CVE-2008-6373
URL: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-6373
Assigned: 20090302
Reference: CONFIRM: http://www.nagios.org/development/history/nagios-3x.php
Reference: CONFIRM: http://www.nagios.org/news/#88
Reference: BID:32611
Reference: URL: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32611
Reference: SECUNIA:32909
Reference: URL: http://secunia.com/advisories/32909

Unspecified vulnerability in Nagios before 3.0.6 has unspecified
impact and remote attack vectors related to CGI programs, "adaptive
external commands," and "writing newlines and submitting service
comments."

Additional resources:

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=249876
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=E1L6mat-0001sb-RN%40fdv4jf1.ch3.sourceforge.com&forum_name=nagios-checkins

And a thread the discusses this issue:

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/12/17/10

Comment 1 Vincent Danen 2009-03-23 22:04:23 UTC

Fedora 10 should be updated to 3.0.6 to correct this issue (3.0.6 is currently in testing).

For Fedora 9 and HPC which provide Nagios 2.x, this is a non-issue as this is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2008-5028 and should therefore only affect Nagios 3.0.5 (so only affecting Fedora 10).

Comment 2 Vincent Danen 2009-03-24 14:59:39 UTC

Sorry, this one refers to an incomplete CVE-2008-5027 fix, not -5028 (but again only affects Nagios 3.0.5).