CVE-2007-5198

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 8.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2007-10-04 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

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.

Affected products

Nagios Plugins: through 1.4.9

References

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=194178
http://secunia.com/advisories/27124
http://secunia.com/advisories/27362
http://secunia.com/advisories/27609
http://secunia.com/advisories/27965
http://secunia.com/advisories/28930
http://secunia.com/advisories/29862
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200711-11.xml
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=740172
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1687867&group_id=29880&atid=397597
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1813346&group_id=29880&atid=397597
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1495

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