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[DSA1072] DSA-1072-1 nagios

Vulnerability Assessment Summary
DSA-1072-1 nagios

Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment

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.

Solution : http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1072
Network Security Threat Level: High

Networks Security ID: 17879

Vulnerability Assessment Copyright: This script is (C) 2007 Michel Arboi

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