metadata/glsa/glsa-200903-22.xml

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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">

<glsa id="200903-22">
  <title>Ganglia: Execution of arbitrary code</title>
  <synopsis>
    A buffer-overflow in Ganglia's gmetad might lead to the execution of
    arbitrary code.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">ganglia</product>
  <announced>March 10, 2009</announced>
  <revised>March 10, 2009: 01</revised>
  <bug>255366</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="sys-cluster/ganglia" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">3.1.1-r2</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">3.1.1-r2</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    Ganglia is a scalable distributed monitoring system for clusters and
    grids.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    Spike Spiegel reported a stack-based buffer overflow in the
    process_path() function when processing overly long pathnames in
    gmetad/server.c.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="high">
    <p>
    A remote attacker could send a specially crafted request to the gmetad
    service leading to the execution of arbitrary code or a Denial of
    Service.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    There is no known workaround at this time.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All Ganglia users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose &quot;&gt;=sys-cluster/ganglia-3.1.1-r2&quot;</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-0241">CVE-2009-0241</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Tue, 03 Feb 2009 00:12:46 +0000">
    keytoaster
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Thu, 12 Feb 2009 16:26:05 +0000">
    rbu
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Thu, 12 Feb 2009 16:27:02 +0000">
    rbu
  </metadata>
</glsa>