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Ganglia gmond Denial of Service Vulnerability
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA10166
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Release Date:
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2003-11-10
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Popularity:
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6,015 views
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Critical:
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Less critical
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Impact:
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DoS
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Where:
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From local network
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| Software: | Ganglia 2.x
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Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in Ganglia, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
The vulnerability is caused due to an error in gmond when handling certain packets. This can be exploited to crash the service by sending a specially crafted packet advertising a user-defined metric with a one byte long name string.
Solution:
Update to version 2.5.5.
http://ganglia.sourceforge.net/downloads.php
Provided and/or discovered by:
James Prewett
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