Gentoo alert 200903-40 (analog)
| From: | Pierre-Yves Rofes <py@gentoo.org> | |
| To: | gentoo-announce@lists.gentoo.org | |
| Subject: | [gentoo-announce] [ GLSA 200903-40 ] Analog: Denial of Service | |
| Date: | Sun, 29 Mar 2009 23:40:57 +0200 | |
| Message-ID: | <49CFEAE9.8020804@gentoo.org> | |
| Cc: | full-disclosure@lists.grok.org.uk, bugtraq@securityfocus.com, security-alerts@linuxsecurity.com | |
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- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200903-40 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - http://security.gentoo.org/ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Severity: Normal Title: Analog: Denial of Service Date: March 29, 2009 Bugs: #249140 ID: 200903-40 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Synopsis ======== A Denial of Service vulnerability was discovered in Analog. Background ========== Analog is a a webserver log analyzer. Affected packages ================= ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 app-admin/analog < 6.0-r2 >= 6.0-r2 Description =========== Diego E. Petteno reported that the Analog package in Gentoo is built with its own copy of bzip2, making it vulnerable to CVE-2008-1372 (GLSA 200804-02). Impact ====== A local attacker could place specially crafted log files into a log directory being analyzed by analog, e.g. /var/log/apache, resulting in a crash when being processed by the application. Workaround ========== There is no known workaround at this time. Resolution ========== All Analog users should upgrade to the latest version: # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-admin/analog-6.0-r2" NOTE: Analog is now linked against the system bzip2 library. References ========== [ 1 ] CVE-2008-1372 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-1372 [ 2 ] GLSA 200804-02 http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200804-02.xml Availability ============ This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200903-40.xml 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 http://bugs.gentoo.org. License ======= Copyright 2009 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text belongs to its owner(s). The contents of this document are licensed under the Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5