gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-200411-02.xml

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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="200411-02">
  <title>Cherokee: Format string vulnerability</title>
  <synopsis>
    Cherokee contains a format string vulnerability that could lead to denial
    of service or the execution of arbitary code.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">cherokee</product>
  <announced>2004-11-01</announced>
  <revised count="02">2006-05-22</revised>
  <bug>67667</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="www-servers/cherokee" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">0.4.17.1</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="le">0.4.17</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    Cherokee is an extra-light web server.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    Florian Schilhabel from the Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team found a
    format string vulnerability in the cherokee_logger_ncsa_write_string()
    function.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="high">
    <p>
    Using a specially crafted URL when authenticating via auth_pam, a
    malicious user may be able to crash the server or execute arbitrary
    code on the target machine with permissions of the user running
    Cherokee.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    There is no known workaround at this time.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All Cherokee users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=www-servers/cherokee-0.4.17.1"</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2004-1097">CVE-2004-1097</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2004-11-01T10:17:11Z">
    koon
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2004-11-01T11:49:51Z">
    koon
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2004-11-01T15:51:07Z">
    jaervosz
  </metadata>
</glsa>