CVE-2006-2162

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CVSS v3.1

N/A

EPSS

4.73%

Published

May 3, 2006

Modified

Jun 16, 2026

Public PoC / Exploit

All weaponized →

No public PoC or exploit code indexed for this CVE.

Links to public security research (Exploit-DB, Nuclei, Trickest, GitHub) for defensive use only.

Description

Buffer overflow in CGI scripts in Nagios 1.x before 1.4 and 2.x before 2.3 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a negative content length (Content-Length) HTTP header.

Affected Products (2)

nagios · nagiosvulnerable

References (20)

http://secunia.com/advisories/19991

http://secunia.com/advisories/19998

http://secunia.com/advisories/20013

http://secunia.com/advisories/20215

http://secunia.com/advisories/20247

http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1072

http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200605-07.xml

http://www.nagios.org/development/changelog.php

http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_05_19.html

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17879

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1662

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26253

https://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=10297806&forum_id=7890

https://usn.ubuntu.com/282-1/