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CVE-2009-0241

This CVE name corresponds to:

Entered Topic
2009-01-30 ganglia -- buffer overflow vulnerability

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Details

Type Candidate
Name CVE-2009-0241
Phase Assigned(20090120)

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the process_path function in gmetad/server.c in Ganglia 3.1.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a request to the gmetad service with a long pathname.

References

Source Reference
MLIST [Ganglia-developers] 20090113 patches for: [Sec] Gmetad server BoF and network overload + [Feature] multiple requests per conn on interactive port
MISC http://bugzilla.ganglia.info/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=223
GENTOO GLSA-200903-22
SUSE SUSE-SR:2009:011
BID 33299
SECUNIA 33506
SECUNIA 34228
SECUNIA 35416