CVE-2006-2162

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2006-05-03 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Buffer overflow in CGI scripts in Nagios 1.x before 1.4 and 2.x before 2.3 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a negative content length (Content-Length) HTTP header.

Affected products

Nagios Enterprises nagios: through 1.3; through 2.2

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/19991
http://secunia.com/advisories/19998
http://secunia.com/advisories/20013
http://secunia.com/advisories/20215
http://secunia.com/advisories/20247
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1072
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200605-07.xml
http://www.nagios.org/development/changelog.php
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_05_19.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17879
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1662
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26253

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