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USN-1151-1: Nagios vulnerabilities

15 June 2011

An attacker could modify or steal data if you were tricked into clicking on a special link to Nagios.

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Releases

Packages

  • nagios3 - A host/service/network monitoring and management system

Details

Stefan Schurtz discovered than Nagios did not properly sanitize its input
when processing certain requests, resulting in cross-site scripting (XSS)
vulnerabilities. With cross-site scripting vulnerabilities, if a user were
tricked into viewing server output during a crafted server request, a
remote attacker could exploit this to modify the contents, or steal
confidential data, within the same domain.

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Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 11.04
Ubuntu 10.10
Ubuntu 10.04

After a standard system update you need to restart Nagios to make
all the necessary changes.