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Gentoo: 200903-22 Critical: Ganglia Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

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Calendar Grey March 10, 2009
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The Ganglia gmetad service suffers from a critical vulnerability due to a buffer overflow, which could permit unauthorized remote code execution. Immediate upgrades are highly advised.
A buffer-overflow in Ganglia's gmetad might lead to the execution of arbitrary code.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200903-22 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: High Title: Ganglia: Execution of arbitrary code Date: March 10, 2009 Bugs: #255366 ID: 200903-22

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.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 sys-cluster/ganglia < 3.1.1-r2 >= 3.1.1-r2
========== 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 ...

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