Test ID:	1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.58711
Category:	Ubuntu Local Security Checks
Title:	Ubuntu USN-532-1 (nagios-plugins)
Summary:	NOSUMMARY
Description:	Description: The remote host is missing an update to nagios-plugins announced via advisory USN-532-1. A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases: Ubuntu 6.06 LTS This advisory also applies to the corresponding versions of Kubuntu, Edubuntu, and Xubuntu. Details follow: Nobuhiro Ban discovered that check_http in nagios-plugins did not properly sanitize its input when following redirection requests. A malicious remote web server could cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code as the user. (CVE-2007-5198) Aravind Gottipati discovered that sslutils.c in nagios-plugins did not properly reset pointers to NULL. A malicious remote web server could cause a denial of service. Aravind Gottipati discovered that check_http in nagios-plugins did not properly calculate how much memory to reallocate when following redirection requests. A malicious remote web server could cause a denial of service. Solution: The problem can be corrected by upgrading your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 6.06 LTS: nagios-plugins 1.4.2-5ubuntu3.1 nagios-plugins-basic 1.4.2-5ubuntu3.1 nagios-plugins-standard 1.4.2-5ubuntu3.1 In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to affect the necessary changes. http://www.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=USN-532-1 Risk factor : High CVSS Score: 6.8
Cross-Ref:	Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2007-5198 25952 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25952 27124 http://secunia.com/advisories/27124 27362 http://secunia.com/advisories/27362 27609 http://secunia.com/advisories/27609 27965 http://secunia.com/advisories/27965 28930 http://secunia.com/advisories/28930 29862 http://secunia.com/advisories/29862 ADV-2007-3394 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3394 DSA-1495 http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1495 FEDORA-2008-3061 https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-April/msg00249.html FEDORA-2008-3098 https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-April/msg00282.html FEDORA-2008-3146 https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-April/msg00320.html GLSA-200711-11 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200711-11.xml MDVSA-2008:067 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:067 SUSE-SR:2007:025 http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_25_sr.html USN-532-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-532-1 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=194178 http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=740172 http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1687867&group_id=29880&atid=397597 http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1813346&group_id=29880&atid=397597
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