CVE-2007-5198 Information

Description

Buffer overflow in the redir function in check_http.c in Nagios Plugins before 1.4.10 when running with the -f (follow) option allows remote web servers to execute arbitrary code via Location header responses (redirects) with a large number of leading \L\ characters.

Reference

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=194178 http://secunia.com/advisories/27124 http://secunia.com/advisories/27362 http://secunia.com/advisories/27609 http://secunia.com/advisories/27965 http://secunia.com/advisories/28930 http://secunia.com/advisories/29862 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200711-11.xml http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=740172 http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1687867&group_id=29880&atid=397597 http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1813346&group_id=29880&atid=397597 http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1495 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:067 http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_25_sr.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25952 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-532-1 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3394 https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-April/msg00249.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-April/msg00282.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-April/msg00320.html