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gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-200903-22.xml

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!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>