CVE-2006-2162 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Buffer overflow in CGI scripts in Nagios 1.x before 1.4 and 2.x before 2.3 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a negative content length (Content-Length) HTTP header.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact None

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Vendors	Products
Nagios	Nagios

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:nagios:nagios::::::::
	cpe:2.3:a:nagios:nagios::::::::

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References

Link	Providers
http://secunia.com/advisories/19991
http://secunia.com/advisories/19998
http://secunia.com/advisories/20013
http://secunia.com/advisories/20215
http://secunia.com/advisories/20247
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1072
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200605-07.xml
http://www.nagios.org/development/changelog.php
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_05_19.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17879
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1662
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26253
https://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=10297806&forum_id=7890
https://usn.ubuntu.com/282-1/

History

No history.

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2006-05-03T21:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-07T17:43:27.424Z

Reserved: 2006-05-03T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2006-2162

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2006-05-03T21:02:00.000

Modified: 2025-04-03T01:03:51.193

Link: CVE-2006-2162

Redhat

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