DSA-1710-1 ganglia-monitor-core -- buffer overflow

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1710-1 ganglia-monitor-core -- buffer overflow

Date Reported:

25 Jan 2009

Affected Packages:

ganglia-monitor-core

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2009-0241.

More information:

Spike Spiegel discovered a stack-based buffer overflow in gmetad, the meta-daemon for the ganglia cluster monitoring toolkit, which could be triggered via a request with long path names and might enable arbitrary code execution.

For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 2.5.7-3.1etch4.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 2.5.7-5.

For the testing distribution (lenny), this problem will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you upgrade your ganglia-monitor-core packages.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (etch)

Source:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ganglia-monitor-core/ganglia-monitor-core_2.5.7.orig.tar.gz

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ganglia-monitor-core/ganglia-monitor-core_2.5.7-3.1etch4.diff.gz

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ganglia-monitor-core/ganglia-monitor-core_2.5.7-3.1etch4.dsc

Alpha:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ganglia-monitor-core/libganglia1-dev_2.5.7-3.1etch4_alpha.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ganglia-monitor-core/gmetad_2.5.7-3.1etch4_alpha.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ganglia-monitor-core/libganglia1_2.5.7-3.1etch4_alpha.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ganglia-monitor-core/ganglia-monitor_2.5.7-3.1etch4_alpha.deb

AMD64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ganglia-monitor-core/gmetad_2.5.7-3.1etch4_amd64.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ganglia-monitor-core/libganglia1-dev_2.5.7-3.1etch4_amd64.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ganglia-monitor-core/libganglia1_2.5.7-3.1etch4_amd64.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ganglia-monitor-core/ganglia-monitor_2.5.7-3.1etch4_amd64.deb

ARM:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ganglia-monitor-core/gmetad_2.5.7-3.1etch4_arm.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ganglia-monitor-core/libganglia1_2.5.7-3.1etch4_arm.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ganglia-monitor-core/libganglia1-dev_2.5.7-3.1etch4_arm.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ganglia-monitor-core/ganglia-monitor_2.5.7-3.1etch4_arm.deb

Intel IA-32:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ganglia-monitor-core/libganglia1_2.5.7-3.1etch4_i386.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ganglia-monitor-core/gmetad_2.5.7-3.1etch4_i386.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ganglia-monitor-core/ganglia-monitor_2.5.7-3.1etch4_i386.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ganglia-monitor-core/libganglia1-dev_2.5.7-3.1etch4_i386.deb

Intel IA-64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ganglia-monitor-core/ganglia-monitor_2.5.7-3.1etch4_ia64.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ganglia-monitor-core/libganglia1-dev_2.5.7-3.1etch4_ia64.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ganglia-monitor-core/libganglia1_2.5.7-3.1etch4_ia64.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ganglia-monitor-core/gmetad_2.5.7-3.1etch4_ia64.deb

Big-endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ganglia-monitor-core/ganglia-monitor_2.5.7-3.1etch4_mips.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ganglia-monitor-core/gmetad_2.5.7-3.1etch4_mips.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ganglia-monitor-core/libganglia1_2.5.7-3.1etch4_mips.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ganglia-monitor-core/libganglia1-dev_2.5.7-3.1etch4_mips.deb

Little-endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ganglia-monitor-core/gmetad_2.5.7-3.1etch4_mipsel.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ganglia-monitor-core/libganglia1_2.5.7-3.1etch4_mipsel.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ganglia-monitor-core/ganglia-monitor_2.5.7-3.1etch4_mipsel.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ganglia-monitor-core/libganglia1-dev_2.5.7-3.1etch4_mipsel.deb

PowerPC:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ganglia-monitor-core/ganglia-monitor_2.5.7-3.1etch4_powerpc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ganglia-monitor-core/libganglia1-dev_2.5.7-3.1etch4_powerpc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ganglia-monitor-core/libganglia1_2.5.7-3.1etch4_powerpc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ganglia-monitor-core/gmetad_2.5.7-3.1etch4_powerpc.deb

IBM S/390:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ganglia-monitor-core/ganglia-monitor_2.5.7-3.1etch4_s390.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ganglia-monitor-core/libganglia1_2.5.7-3.1etch4_s390.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ganglia-monitor-core/libganglia1-dev_2.5.7-3.1etch4_s390.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ganglia-monitor-core/gmetad_2.5.7-3.1etch4_s390.deb

Sun Sparc:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ganglia-monitor-core/ganglia-monitor_2.5.7-3.1etch4_sparc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ganglia-monitor-core/libganglia1-dev_2.5.7-3.1etch4_sparc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ganglia-monitor-core/gmetad_2.5.7-3.1etch4_sparc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ganglia-monitor-core/libganglia1_2.5.7-3.1etch4_sparc.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.