CVE-2007-5198

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Summary

CVECVE-2007-5198
StatePUBLISHED
Assignerredhat
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2007-10-04 17:17:00 UTC
Updated2026-04-23 00:35:47 UTC
DescriptionBuffer 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.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 6.8 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Problem Types: CWE-119 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Medium
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Partial
Integrity
Partial
Availability
Partial

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Nagios Plugins All All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Nagios Plugins Long Location Header Buffer Overflow Vulnerability - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
SUSE Update for Multiple Packages - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Ubuntu update for nagios-plugins - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
404 Page Not Found | SUSE af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.novell.com
USN-532-1: nagios-plugins vulnerability | Ubuntu af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.ubuntu.com
[SECURITY] Fedora 8 Update: nagios-plugins-1.4.11-2.fc8 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.redhat.com
[SECURITY] Fedora 7 Update: nagios-plugins-1.4.11-2.fc7 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.redhat.com
Fedora update for nagios / nagios-plugins - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Page not found - SourceForge.net af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 sourceforge.net
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-1495-1 nagios-plugins af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.debian.org
194178 – net-analyzer/nagios-plugins <1.4.10-r1 Buffer overflow vulnerability in check_http plugin (CVE-2007-5198) af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugs.gentoo.org
SourceForge.net: News: Nagios Plugins 1.4.10 released! af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 sourceforge.net
Debian update for nagios-plugins - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Nagios Plugins Location Header Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
Gentoo Linux Documentation -- Nagios Plugins: Two buffer overflows af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 security.gentoo.org
Page not found - SourceForge.net af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 sourceforge.net Exploit
Gentoo update for nagios-plugins - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Support / Security / Advisories / / MDVSA-2008:067 | Mandriva af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.mandriva.com
[SECURITY] Fedora 8 Update: nagios-2.11-3.fc8 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.redhat.com
Webmail- OVH af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.vupen.com
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