Executive Summary

Summary
Title Ganglia: Execution of arbitrary code
Informations
Name GLSA-200903-22 First vendor Publication 2009-03-10
Vendor Gentoo Last vendor Modification 2009-03-10
Severity (Vendor) High Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 7.5 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Synopsis

A buffer-overflow in Ganglia's gmetad might lead to the execution of arbitrary code.

Background

Ganglia is a scalable distributed monitoring system for clusters and grids.

Description

Spike Spiegel reported a stack-based buffer overflow in the process_path() function when processing overly long pathnames in gmetad/server.c.

Impact

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.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All Ganglia users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=sys-cluster/ganglia-3.1.1-r2"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2009-0241 : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-0241

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website:

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200903-22.xml

Original Source

Url : http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200903-22.xml

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-119 Failure to Constrain Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:13077
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:13077
Title: DSA-1710-1 ganglia-monitor-core -- buffer overflow
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. For the stable distribution, this problem has been fixed in version 2.5.7-3.1etch1. For the unstable distribution this problem has been fixed in version 2.5.7-5. For the testing distribution, this problem will be fixed soon. We recommend that you upgrade your ganglia-monitor-core packages.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): DSA-1710-1
CVE-2009-0241
 Version: 5
Platform(s): Debian GNU/Linux 4.0
 Product(s): ganglia-monitor-core
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:8096
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:8096
Title: DSA-1710 ganglia-monitor-core -- buffer overflow
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.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): DSA-1710
CVE-2009-0241
 Version: 3
Platform(s): Debian GNU/Linux 4.0
 Product(s): ganglia-monitor-core
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 1

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2009-06-15 Name : SuSE Security Summary SUSE-SR:2009:011
File : nvt/suse_sr_2009_011.nasl
2009-03-13 Name : Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200903-22 (ganglia)
File : nvt/glsa_200903_22.nasl
2009-02-02 Name : Debian Security Advisory DSA 1710-1 (ganglia-monitor-core)
File : nvt/deb_1710_1.nasl
2009-02-02 Name : FreeBSD Ports: ganglia-monitor-core, ganglia-monitor-webfrontend
File : nvt/freebsd_ganglia-monitor-core.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
51384 Ganglia gmetad/server.c process_path Function Overflow

Snort® IPS/IDS

Date Description
2014-01-10 Ganglia Meta Daemon process_path stack buffer overflow attempt
RuleID : 15364 - Revision : 11 - Type : SERVER-OTHER

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2009-07-21 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : suse_11_0_ganglia-monitor-core-090519.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-07-21 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : suse_11_1_ganglia-monitor-core-090519.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-05-22 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : suse_ganglia-monitor-core-6259.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-03-11 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-200903-22.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-02-01 Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates.
File : freebsd_pkg_b9077cc46d044bcba37a9ceaebfdcc9e.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-01-26 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-1710.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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