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CVE-2013-7205

This CVE name corresponds to:

Entered Topic
2014-01-14 nagios -- denial of service vulnerability

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Details

Type Candidate
Name CVE-2013-7205
Phase Assigned(20131223)

Description

Off-by-one error in the process_cgivars function in contrib/daemonchk.c in Nagios Core 3.5.1, 4.0.2, and earlier allows 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, which triggers a heap-based buffer over-read.

References

Source Reference
MLIST [oss-security] 20131224 Re: CVE request: denial of service in Nagios (process_cgivars())
CONFIRM http://sourceforge.net/p/nagios/nagioscore/ci/d97e03f32741a7d851826b03ed73ff4c9612a866/
MANDRIVA MDVSA-2014:004
SECUNIA 55976