Package : nagios Vulnerability : buffer overflow Problem type : remote Debian-specific: no CVE IDs : CVE-2006-2162 CVE-2006-2489 BugTraq ID : 17879 Debian Bugs : 366682 366683 368193
A buffer overflow has been discovered in nagios, a host, service and network monitoring and management system, that could be exploited by remote attackers to execute arbitrary code.
The old stable distribution (woody) does not contain nagios packages.
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 1.3-cvs.20050402-2.sarge.2.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 1.4-1 and 2.3-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your nagios package.
Upgrade Instructions - --------------------
wget url will fetch the file for you dpkg -i file.deb will install the referenced file.
If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for sources.list as given below:
apt-get update will update the internal database apt-get upgrade will install corrected packages
You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the footer to the proper configuration.
Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 alias sarge - --------------------------------