[TriLUG] Nagios plugin check_http segmentation fault - potential for buffer overflow?

[Ian Kilgore]

On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 02:38:13PM -0500, David McDowell wrote:
<snip bug report>

It looks like it is happening somewhere in base64()
plugins/check_http.c.  base64() doesn't like the string ':', or any
other one character string.

Line 485 in my version (1.4)

while (j < len - 2) {

len is 1.  This causes it to loop for a long time and do lots of silly
things.
-- 
Ian Kilgore
echo "pfxz at pfxz.trw" | tr pzfwxt ikagno
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