CVE-2013-7205

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.4 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-01-15 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Off-by-one error in the process_cgivars function in contrib/daemonchk.c in Nagios Core 3.5.1, 4.0.2, and earlier allows remote authenticated users to obtain sensitive information from process memory or cause a denial of service (crash) via a long string in the last key value in the variable list, which triggers a heap-based buffer over-read.

Affected products

Nagios Enterprises nagios: through 4.0.2; 3.0, 3.0-alpha1, 3.0-alpha2, 3.0-alpha3, 3.0-alpha4, 3.0-alpha5 (+29)

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/55976
http://sourceforge.net/p/nagios/nagioscore/ci/d97e03f32741a7d851826b03ed73ff4c9612a866/
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:004
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/12/24/1
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/64489
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/12/msg00014.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/55976
http://sourceforge.net/p/nagios/nagioscore/ci/d97e03f32741a7d851826b03ed73ff4c9612a866/
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:004
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/12/24/1
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/64489
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/12/msg00014.html

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