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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<?xml-stylesheet href="/xsl/glsa.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>
+<?xml-stylesheet href="/xsl/guide.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>
+<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
+
+<glsa id="200903-22">
+ <title>Ganglia: Execution of arbitrary code</title>
+ <synopsis>
+ A buffer-overflow in Ganglia's gmetad might lead to the execution of
+ arbitrary code.
+ </synopsis>
+ <product type="ebuild">ganglia</product>
+ <announced>March 10, 2009</announced>
+ <revised>March 10, 2009: 01</revised>
+ <bug>255366</bug>
+ <access>remote</access>
+ <affected>
+ <package name="sys-cluster/ganglia" auto="yes" arch="*">
+ <unaffected range="ge">3.1.1-r2</unaffected>
+ <vulnerable range="lt">3.1.1-r2</vulnerable>
+ </package>
+ </affected>
+ <background>
+ <p>
+ Ganglia is a scalable distributed monitoring system for clusters and
+ grids.
+ </p>
+ </background>
+ <description>
+ <p>
+ Spike Spiegel reported a stack-based buffer overflow in the
+ process_path() function when processing overly long pathnames in
+ gmetad/server.c.
+ </p>
+ </description>
+ <impact type="high">
+ <p>
+ 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.
+ </p>
+ </impact>
+ <workaround>
+ <p>
+ There is no known workaround at this time.
+ </p>
+ </workaround>
+ <resolution>
+ <p>
+ All Ganglia users should upgrade to the latest version:
+ </p>
+ <code>
+ # emerge --sync
+ # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose &quot;&gt;=sys-cluster/ganglia-3.1.1-r2&quot;</code>
+ </resolution>
+ <references>
+ <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-0241">CVE-2009-0241</uri>
+ </references>
+ <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Tue, 03 Feb 2009 00:12:46 +0000">
+ keytoaster
+ </metadata>
+ <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Thu, 12 Feb 2009 16:26:05 +0000">
+ rbu
+ </metadata>
+ <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Thu, 12 Feb 2009 16:27:02 +0000">
+ rbu
+ </metadata>
+</glsa>