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[gentoo-announce] [ GLSA 200907-15 ] Nagios: Execution of arbitrary code

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200907-15

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Severity: High

Title: Nagios: Execution of arbitrary code

Date: July 19, 2009

Bugs: #245887, #249876, #275288

ID: 200907-15

 

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Synopsis

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Multiple vulnerabilities in Nagios may lead to the execution of

arbitrary code.

 

Background

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Nagios is an open source host, service and network monitoring program.

 

Affected packages

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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected

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1 net-analyzer/nagios-core < 3.0.6-r2 >= 3.0.6-r2

 

Description

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Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in Nagios:

 

* Paul reported that statuswml.cgi does not properly sanitize shell

metacharacters in the (1) ping and (2) traceroute parameters

(CVE-2009-2288).

 

* Nagios does not properly verify whether an authenticated user is

authorized to run certain commands (CVE-2008-5027).

 

* Andreas Ericsson reported that Nagios does not perform validity

checks to verify HTTP requests, leading to Cross-Site Request Forgery

(CVE-2008-5028).

 

* An unspecified vulnerability in Nagios related to CGI programs,

"adaptive external commands," and "writing newlines and submitting

service comments" has been reported (CVE-2008-6373).

 

Impact

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A remote authenticated or unauthenticated attacker may exploit these

vulnerabilities to execute arbitrary commands or elevate privileges.

 

Workaround

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There is no known workaround at this time.

 

Resolution

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All Nagios users should upgrade to the latest version:

 

# emerge --sync

# emerge --ask --oneshot -v ">=net-analyzer/nagios-core-3.0.6-r2"

 

NOTE: Users of the Nagios 2 branch can update to version 2.12-r1 which

contains a patch to fix CVE-2009-2288. However, that branch is not

supported upstream or in Gentoo and we are unaware whether the other

vulnerabilities affect 2.x installations.

 

References

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[ 1 ] CVE-2008-5027

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5027

[ 2 ] CVE-2008-5028

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5028

[ 3 ] CVE-2008-6373

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-6373

[ 4 ] CVE-2009-2288

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-2288

 

Availability

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This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at

the Gentoo Security Website:

 

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200907-15.xml

 

Concerns?

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Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the

confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost

importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to

security ( -at -) gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at

https://bugs.gentoo.org.

 

License

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Copyright 2009 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text

belongs to its owner(s).

 

The contents of this document are licensed under the

Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license.

 

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5

 

 

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