--- /dev/null
+# This should get removed whenever 2.16 is released, assuming it has the fix
+# included. http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q2/129. There's not upstream
+# concensus that quoting arguments in a mode which is widely agreed upon to be
+# risky so track upstream discussions here, too.
+
+diff --git b/src/nrpe.c a/src/nrpe.c
+index 381f0ac..ad1e05d 100644
+--- b/src/nrpe.c
++++ a/src/nrpe.c
+@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ int use_ssl=FALSE;
+
+ #define DEFAULT_COMMAND_TIMEOUT 60 /* default timeout for execution of plugins */
+ #define MAXFD 64
+-#define NASTY_METACHARS "|`&><'\"\\[]{};"
++#define NASTY_METACHARS "|`&><'\"\\[]{};\n"
+ #define howmany(x,y) (((x)+((y)-1))/(y))
+ #define MAX_LISTEN_SOCKS 16
+