Title : Nagios Plugins "check_snmp" Snmpget Reply Buffer Overflow Vulnerability VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2007-3629 CVE ID : CVE-2007-5623
Rated as : Moderate Risk
Remotely Exploitable : Yes Locally Exploitable : Yes Release Date : 2007-10-26
Technical Description
A vulnerability has been identified in Nagios Plugins, which could be exploited by remote attackers to cause a denial of service or take complete control of an affected system. This issue is caused by a buffer overflow error in the "check_snmp" plugin when processing malformed snmp get replies, which could be exploited by remote attackers to crash an affected application or execute arbitrary code via a specially crafted request.
