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Fedora 21: Critical Ganglia Security Update Fixes CVE-2015-6816 Issue

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Calendar Grey October 23, 2015
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Explore the recent CentOS patch for Nagios, which resolves a significant privilege escalation vulnerability.
Update to ganglia-web 3.7.1, including security fix for CVE-2015-6816.

Summary

Ganglia is a scalable, real-time monitoring and execution environment

with all execution requests and statistics expressed in an open

well-defined XML format.

Update Information:

Update to ganglia-web 3.7.1, including security fix for CVE-2015-6816.

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical issue fedora authentication bypass ganglia

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1260563 - CVE-2015-6816 ganglia: Bypassing Ganglia-web auth using boolean serialization [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1260563

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update ganglia' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .

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Name: ganglia
Product: Fedora 21
Version: 3.7.2
Release: 6.fc21
URL: https://sourceforge.net/projects/ganglia/
Summary: Distributed Monitoring System

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical issue fedora authentication bypass ganglia

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