Input validation error in Nagios - CVE-2013-7108
Published: January 15, 2014 / Updated: July 29, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU32581
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2013-7108
CWE-ID: CWE-20
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
Public exploit is available
Vendor: nagios.org
Affected software:
Nagios
Nagios
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote #AU# to #BASIC_IMPACT#.
Multiple off-by-one errors in Nagios Core 3.5.1, 4.0.2, and earlier, and Icinga before 1.8.5, 1.9 before 1.9.4, and 1.10 before 1.10.2 allow remote authenticated users to obtain sensitive information from process memory or cause a denial of service (crash) via a long string in the last key value in the variable list to the process_cgivars function in (1) avail.c, (2) cmd.c, (3) config.c, (4) extinfo.c, (5) histogram.c, (6) notifications.c, (7) outages.c, (8) status.c, (9) statusmap.c, (10) summary.c, and (11) trends.c in cgi/, which triggers a heap-based buffer over-read.
How to mitigate CVE-2013-7108
Install update from vendor's website.
Sources
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-01/msg00010.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-01/msg00028.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-01/msg00046.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-01/msg00068.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/55976
- http://secunia.com/advisories/56316
- http://sourceforge.net/p/nagios/nagioscore/ci/d97e03f32741a7d851826b03ed73ff4c9612a866/
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:004
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/12/24/1
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/64363
- https://dev.icinga.org/issues/5251
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/12/msg00014.html
- https://www.icinga.org/2013/12/17/icinga-security-releases-1-10-2-1-9-4-1-8-5/