{"id":"USN-3253-1","summary":"nagios3 vulnerabilities","details":"It was discovered that Nagios incorrectly handled certain long strings. A\nremote authenticated attacker could use this issue to cause Nagios to\ncrash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly obtain sensitive\ninformation. (CVE-2013-7108, CVE-2013-7205)\n\nIt was discovered that Nagios incorrectly handled certain long messages to\ncmd.cgi. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Nagios to\ncrash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2014-1878)\n\nDawid Golunski discovered that Nagios incorrectly handled symlinks when\naccessing log files. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to\nelevate privileges. In the default installation of Ubuntu, this should be\nprevented by the Yama link restrictions. (CVE-2016-9566)\n","modified":"2026-02-10T04:41:06Z","published":"2017-04-03T17:42:28Z","related":["UBUNTU-CVE-2013-7108","UBUNTU-CVE-2013-7205","UBUNTU-CVE-2014-1878","UBUNTU-CVE-2016-9566"],"upstream":["CVE-2013-7108","CVE-2013-7205","CVE-2014-1878","CVE-2016-9566","UBUNTU-CVE-2013-7108","UBUNTU-CVE-2013-7205","UBUNTU-CVE-2014-1878","UBUNTU-CVE-2016-9566"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3253-1"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2013-7108"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2013-7205"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-1878"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-9566"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"nagios3","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:14.04:LTS","purl":"pkg:deb/ubuntu/nagios3@3.5.1-1ubuntu1.1?arch=source&distro=trusty"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"3.5.1-1ubuntu1.1"}]}],"versions":["3.4.1-5ubuntu2","3.4.1-5ubuntu3","3.5.1-1ubuntu1"],"ecosystem_specific":{"binaries":[{"binary_name":"nagios3","binary_version":"3.5.1-1ubuntu1.1"},{"binary_name":"nagios3-cgi","binary_version":"3.5.1-1ubuntu1.1"},{"binary_name":"nagios3-common","binary_version":"3.5.1-1ubuntu1.1"},{"binary_name":"nagios3-core","binary_version":"3.5.1-1ubuntu1.1"}],"availability":"No subscription required"},"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/usn/USN-3253-1.json","cves_map":{"ecosystem":"Ubuntu:14.04:LTS","cves":[{"severity":[{"type":"Ubuntu","score":"low"}],"id":"CVE-2013-7108"},{"severity":[{"type":"Ubuntu","score":"low"}],"id":"CVE-2013-7205"},{"severity":[{"type":"Ubuntu","score":"low"}],"id":"CVE-2014-1878"},{"severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},{"type":"Ubuntu","score":"medium"}],"id":"CVE-2016-9566"}]}}},{"package":{"name":"nagios3","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:16.04:LTS","purl":"pkg:deb/ubuntu/nagios3@3.5.1.dfsg-2.1ubuntu1.1?arch=source&distro=xenial"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"3.5.1.dfsg-2.1ubuntu1.1"}]}],"versions":["3.5.1-1ubuntu4","3.5.1.dfsg-2ubuntu1","3.5.1.dfsg-2ubuntu2","3.5.1.dfsg-2.1ubuntu1"],"ecosystem_specific":{"binaries":[{"binary_name":"nagios3","binary_version":"3.5.1.dfsg-2.1ubuntu1.1"},{"binary_name":"nagios3-cgi","binary_version":"3.5.1.dfsg-2.1ubuntu1.1"},{"binary_name":"nagios3-common","binary_version":"3.5.1.dfsg-2.1ubuntu1.1"},{"binary_name":"nagios3-core","binary_version":"3.5.1.dfsg-2.1ubuntu1.1"}],"availability":"No subscription required"},"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/usn/USN-3253-1.json","cves_map":{"ecosystem":"Ubuntu:16.04:LTS","cves":[{"severity":[{"type":"Ubuntu","score":"low"}],"id":"CVE-2013-7108"},{"severity":[{"type":"Ubuntu","score":"low"}],"id":"CVE-2013-7205"},{"severity":[{"type":"Ubuntu","score":"low"}],"id":"CVE-2014-1878"},{"severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},{"type":"Ubuntu","score":"medium"}],"id":"CVE-2016-9566"}]}}}],"schema_version":"1.7.3"}