CVE-2007-5198
Publication date 4 October 2007
Last updated 24 July 2024
Ubuntu priority
Buffer overflow in the redir function in check_http.c in Nagios Plugins before 1.4.10, when running with the -f (follow) option, allows remote web servers to execute arbitrary code via Location header responses (redirects) with a large number of leading "L" characters.
Notes
jdstrand
supplied debdiff in LP doesn't address (fixed in CVS before 1.4.11) http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1813346&group_id=29880&atid=397597 also has two DoS: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1729692&group_id=29880&atid=397597 http://nagiosplug.cvs.sourceforge.net/nagiosplug/nagiosplug/plugins/sslutils.c?r1=1.3&r2=1.4 (no bug report, see the changelog)