CVE-2007-5198: nagios plugins

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2007-5198 is a medium (CVSS 6.8) vulnerability in nagios plugins. EPSS estimates a 8.02% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 94.7% of scored vulnerabilities. 2 public exploits are recorded.

Timeline

1. 04-10-2007
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 07-08-2024
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

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.

• CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferThe product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it reads from or writes to a memory location outside the buffer's intended boundary. This may result in read or write operations on unexpected memory locations that could be linked to other variables, data structures, or internal program data.