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Gentoo: GLSA-201309-17 High: Monkey HTTP Daemon Code Execution Risk

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Calendar Grey September 25, 2013
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
Numerous serious vulnerabilities in Monkey HTTP Daemon present risks for arbitrary code execution or service disruption. It's advisable to upgrade.
Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Monkey HTTP Daemon, the worst of which could result in arbitrary code execution.

Summary

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Monkey HTTP Daemon. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service high severity gentoo code execution monkey http daemon

Resolution

All Monkey HTTP Daemon users should upgrade to the latest version: # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=www-servers/monkeyd-1.2.2"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2013-2163 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2013-2163 [ 2 ] CVE-2013-3724 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2013-3724 [ 3 ] CVE-2013-3843 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2013-3843

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201309-17
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Concerns

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users' machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.

Severity: High
Title: Monkey HTTP Daemon: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date: September 25, 2013
Bugs: #471906, #472400, #472644
ID: 201309-17

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service high severity gentoo code execution monkey http daemon

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Monkey HTTP Daemon, the worst of which could result in arbitrary code execution.

Background

Monkey HTTP Daemon is a lightweight and powerful web server for GNU/Linux.

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Affected Packages

------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 www-servers/monkeyd < 1.2.2 >= 1.2.2

Impact

===== A remote attacker could send a specially crafted request, resulting in possible arbitrary code execution or a Denial of Service condition.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

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