CVE-2007-5198 (GCVE-0-2007-5198)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2007-10-04 17:00
Modified
2024-08-07 15:24
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
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.
References
http://secunia.com/advisories/27965 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3394 vdb-entry, x_refsource_VUPEN
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=194178 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://secunia.com/advisories/27609 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/27124 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:067 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_MANDRIVA
http://secunia.com/advisories/28930 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/29862 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=740172 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1687867&group_id=29880&atid=397597 x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-April/msg00282.html vendor-advisory, x_refsource_FEDORA
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-532-1 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_UBUNTU
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25952 vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1495 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_DEBIAN
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_25_sr.html vendor-advisory, x_refsource_SUSE
http://secunia.com/advisories/27362 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1813346&group_id=29880&atid=397597 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200711-11.xml vendor-advisory, x_refsource_GENTOO
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-April/msg00249.html vendor-advisory, x_refsource_FEDORA
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-April/msg00320.html vendor-advisory, x_refsource_FEDORA
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
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