[Pkg-nagios-devel] Bug#823721: nagios3: CVE-2014-1878: buffer overflow in cmd.cgi

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: nagios3
Version: 3.4.1-1
Severity: important
Tags: security upstream

Hi,

the following vulnerability was published for nagios3.

CVE-2014-1878[0]:
| Stack-based buffer overflow in the cmd_submitf function in cgi/cmd.c
| in Nagios Core, possibly 4.0.3rc1 and earlier, and Icinga before
| 1.8.6, 1.9 before 1.9.5, and 1.10 before 1.10.3 allows remote
| attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) via a long
| message to cmd.cgi.

If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-1878

Regards,
Salvatore