The Debian Security Team published a new security update for Debian GNU/Linux. Here the announcement:
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Debian Security Advisory DSA-1495-2 security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/ Moritz Muehlenhoff
February 17, 2008 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package : nagios-plugins
Vulnerability : buffer overflows
Problem type : remote
Debian-specific: no
CVE Id(s) : CVE-2007-5198 CVE-2007-5623
A problem with the build system of the nagios-plugins package from old
stable (Sarge) lead to check_procs not being included for the i386
architecture. This update fixes this regression. For reference the
original advisory text below:
Several local/remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in two of
the plugins for the Nagios network monitoring and management system.
The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the
following problems:
CVE-2007-5198
A buffer overflow has been discovered in the parser for HTTP
Location headers (present in the check_http module).
CVE-2007-5623
A buffer overflow has been discovered in the check_snmp module.
For the stable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in
version 1.4.5-1etch1.
For the old stable distribution (sarge), these problems have been
fixed in version 1.4-6sarge2.
We recommend that you upgrade your nagios-plugins package.
Upgrade instructions
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wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.
If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:
apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages
You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.
Debian 3.1 (oldstable)
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Oldstable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, m68k, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc.
Source archives:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nagios-plugins/nagios-plugins_1.4-6sarge2.dsc
Size/MD5 checksum: 927 51eb15268f75ef4f4271d33706c92029
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nagios-plugins/nagios-plugins_1.4.orig.tar.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 973910 d46ae53154a228614629d50ea56d46b6
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nagios-plugins/nagios-plugins_1.4-6sarge2.diff.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 22422 573798e3cce46bf2b5d0206472db13f8
alpha architecture (DEC Alpha)
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nagios-plugins/nagios-plugins_1.4-6sarge2_alpha.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 514752 f4931888fbe7aa359fe68adc160e1429
amd64 architecture (AMD x86_64 (AMD64))
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nagios-plugins/nagios-plugins_1.4-6sarge2_amd64.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 395950 a5450650d11dddf74e6379165b069308
arm architecture (ARM)
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nagios-plugins/nagios-plugins_1.4-6sarge2_arm.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 379384 76bcf58893f373e308afa4ec1f10b278
hppa architecture (HP PA RISC)
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nagios-plugins/nagios-plugins_1.4-6sarge2_hppa.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 393034 f37e7bcc007c031c593dd77bb1b0cb7d
i386 architecture (Intel ia32)
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nagios-plugins/nagios-plugins_1.4-6sarge2_i386.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 384998 d536fe6fbae4b376325984e3f3739572
ia64 architecture (Intel ia64)
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nagios-plugins/nagios-plugins_1.4-6sarge2_ia64.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 644450 e732ba3933eaa34c98d365586dbe84d5
m68k architecture (Motorola Mc680x0)
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nagios-plugins/nagios-plugins_1.4-6sarge2_m68k.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 336632 5f48a57884094ae79c07f861ff4839f0
mips architecture (MIPS (Big Endian))
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nagios-plugins/nagios-plugins_1.4-6sarge2_mips.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 544968 55a7bb6628e93c37090846f58cafa432
mipsel architecture (MIPS (Little Endian))
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nagios-plugins/nagios-plugins_1.4-6sarge2_mipsel.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 532950 48493d1a8ddbcd3715fbfba6c9186681
powerpc architecture (PowerPC)
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nagios-plugins/nagios-plugins_1.4-6sarge2_powerpc.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 367814 142d28f8c6aff94a72f6b19d0501f1ac
s390 architecture (IBM S/390)
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nagios-plugins/nagios-plugins_1.4-6sarge2_s390.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 372306 f564fa8e28ec10b7cbbfacffbd9229ab
sparc architecture (Sun SPARC/UltraSPARC)
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nagios-plugins/nagios-plugins_1.4-6sarge2_sparc.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 349258 907911b940ffc915095dadf9c97d5f2c
These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on
its next update.
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For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main
For dpkg-ftp: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security dists/stable/updates/main
Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
Package info: `apt-cache show <pkg>' and http://packages.debian.org/<pkg>
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