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

high Nessus Plugin ID 35461

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

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.

Solution

Upgrade the ganglia-monitor-core packages.

For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 2.5.7-3.1etch1.

See Also

https://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1710

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 35461

File Name: debian_DSA-1710.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/26/2009

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:4.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:ganglia-monitor-core

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Patch Publication Date: 1/25/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-0241

CWE: 119

DSA: 1710