CVE-2013-7205 Information disclosure in n/a
Authenticated remote attackers can read sensitive memory or crash Nagios Core via a long string in CGI variables due to an off-by-one error.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2013-7205?
CVE-2013-7205 is a medium-severity vulnerability in n/a, published on 14 Jan 2014. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official 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.
Weakness: CWE-119
Which versions are affected by CVE-2013-7205?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Nagios Nagios.
How do I fix CVE-2013-7205?
Upgrade to a fixed version.
Is CVE-2013-7205 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2013-7205 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in n/a
Sources
Also known as GHSA-m23h-2mvj-h557, UBUNTU-CVE-2013-7205.