VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2013-7205

medium
Published 2014-01-15 · Modified 2026-04-29
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
6.4

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
nagiosnagios{"endIncluding":"4.0.2"}
nagiosnagios3.0
nagiosnagios3.0.1
nagiosnagios3.0.2
nagiosnagios3.0.3
nagiosnagios3.0.4
nagiosnagios3.0.5
nagiosnagios3.0.6
nagiosnagios3.1.0
nagiosnagios3.1.1
nagiosnagios3.1.2
nagiosnagios3.2.0
nagiosnagios3.2.1
nagiosnagios3.2.2
nagiosnagios3.2.3
nagiosnagios3.3.1
nagiosnagios3.4.0
nagiosnagios3.4.1
nagiosnagios3.4.2
nagiosnagios3.4.3
nagiosnagios3.5.1

References

CWEs

CWE-119

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.