Bug 315101 (CVE-2007-5198) - CVE-2007-5198 nagios-plugins check_http buffer overflow
Summary: CVE-2007-5198 nagios-plugins check_http buffer overflow
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2007-5198
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Depends On: 362881 362891 362901 445569
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2007-10-02 08:19 UTC by Tomas Hoger
Modified: 2019-09-29 12:21 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2010-12-22 22:34:31 UTC
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Description Tomas Hoger 2007-10-02 08:19:00 UTC
New upstream nagios-plugins version 1.4.10 was released recently with following fix:

"Fix check_http buffer overflow vulnerability when following HTTP redirects"

Release notes:
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=740172

SF.net bug report:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1687867&group_id=29880&atid=397597

Relevant CVS commit:
http://nagiosplug.cvs.sourceforge.net/nagiosplug/nagiosplug/plugins/check_http.c?r1=1.106&r2=1.107

Workaround: do to follow redirects for untrusted servers (see -f option)

No CVE id known at the moment.

Comment 1 Tomas Hoger 2007-10-05 06:28:56 UTC
CVE name CVE-2007-5198 was assigned to this vulnerability.

Comment 2 Tomas Hoger 2007-10-23 11:25:13 UTC
Additional check_http buffer overflow was reported, which is not fixed in 1.4.10:

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1813346&group_id=29880&atid=397597

Upstream SVN commit:

http://nagiosplug.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/nagiosplug/nagiosplug/trunk/plugins/check_http.c?r1=1804&r2=1807

Again, this issue affects redirection handling code (see workaround above).

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2008-04-17 03:48:46 UTC
nagios-plugins-1.4.11-2.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2008-04-17 03:54:27 UTC
nagios-plugins-1.4.11-2.fc7 has been pushed to the Fedora 7 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 6 Tomas Hoger 2008-05-07 14:14:48 UTC
Patch mentioned in comment #2 is applied in upstream 1.4.11, which is in Fedora
archive now.


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