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[USN-698-1] Nagios vulnerability (fwd)

  • From: Gadi Evron
  • Date: Mon Dec 22 12:07:24 2008



---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 09:35:54 -0500
From: Marc Deslauriers <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected], [email protected]
Subject: [USN-698-1] Nagios vulnerability

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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-698-1          December 22, 2008
nagios vulnerability
CVE-2008-5027
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A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases:

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS

This advisory also applies to the corresponding versions of
Kubuntu, Edubuntu, and Xubuntu.

The problem can be corrected by upgrading your system to the
following package versions:

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS:
  nagios-common                   2:1.3-cvs.20050402-8ubuntu8

After a standard system upgrade you need to restart Nagios to effect
the necessary changes.

Details follow:

It was discovered that Nagios did not properly parse commands submitted using
the web interface. An authenticated user could use a custom form or a browser
addon to bypass security restrictions and submit unauthorized commands.


Updated packages for Ubuntu 6.06 LTS:


Source archives:

    http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/n/nagios/nagios_1.3-cvs.20050402-8ubuntu8.diff.gz
      Size/MD5:    70914 96d8036bdb33aadd3141715039c91b24
    http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/n/nagios/nagios_1.3-cvs.20050402-8ubuntu8.dsc
      Size/MD5:      959 0393336015bf452f5dfeb74d75245311
    http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/n/nagios/nagios_1.3-cvs.20050402.orig.tar.gz
      Size/MD5:  1621251 0f92b7b8e705411b7881d3650cbb5d56

Architecture independent packages:

    http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/n/nagios/nagios-common_1.3-cvs.20050402-8ubuntu8_all.deb
      Size/MD5:  1218132 d18e298ee16f4c6c6b7c5969c46044e6

amd64 architecture (Athlon64, Opteron, EM64T Xeon):

    http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/n/nagios/nagios-mysql_1.3-cvs.20050402-8ubuntu8_amd64.deb
      Size/MD5:  1030206 085483fdefd0d7bc43e55dbc5be2bcd6
    http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/n/nagios/nagios-pgsql_1.3-cvs.20050402-8ubuntu8_amd64.deb
      Size/MD5:  1041656 09fc7bb2ff11062603680d09e290909b
    http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/n/nagios/nagios-text_1.3-cvs.20050402-8ubuntu8_amd64.deb
      Size/MD5:  1025618 61619d13effd9a4970486abf5933c756

i386 architecture (x86 compatible Intel/AMD):

    http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/n/nagios/nagios-mysql_1.3-cvs.20050402-8ubuntu8_i386.deb
      Size/MD5:   877846 544afaebec24e7e94d2ce1da3a89346c
    http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/n/nagios/nagios-pgsql_1.3-cvs.20050402-8ubuntu8_i386.deb
      Size/MD5:   886544 411d3ca5a204aa41a4a42ef6e5f56453
    http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/n/nagios/nagios-text_1.3-cvs.20050402-8ubuntu8_i386.deb
      Size/MD5:   872936 aa31f6d1fb8a081a206eae3d6bfb3dd6

powerpc architecture (Apple Macintosh G3/G4/G5):

    http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/n/nagios/nagios-mysql_1.3-cvs.20050402-8ubuntu8_powerpc.deb
      Size/MD5:  1015630 540a27062c7f8612b7f460b2bcfd93b9
    http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/n/nagios/nagios-pgsql_1.3-cvs.20050402-8ubuntu8_powerpc.deb
      Size/MD5:  1024374 47e0480006df0b20a83f67b56da7a9f8
    http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/n/nagios/nagios-text_1.3-cvs.20050402-8ubuntu8_powerpc.deb
      Size/MD5:   993324 03a67a7675075050a672a4c515e8e0c3

sparc architecture (Sun SPARC/UltraSPARC):

    http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/n/nagios/nagios-mysql_1.3-cvs.20050402-8ubuntu8_sparc.deb
      Size/MD5:   918810 7340348f043dd884c88bd016ee30e41d
    http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/n/nagios/nagios-pgsql_1.3-cvs.20050402-8ubuntu8_sparc.deb
      Size/MD5:   926172 e9ccf388b828a17e868807aa39cb5b51
    http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/n/nagios/nagios-text_1.3-cvs.20050402-8ubuntu8_sparc.deb
      Size/MD5:   917374 c88dec0d93f590f8a93ebbc701696f68