Package : ganglia-monitor-core
Vulnerability : buffer overflow
Problem type : remote
Debian-specific: no
CVE Id : CVE-2009-0241
Spike Spiegel discovered a stack-based buffer overflow in gmetad, the meta-daemon for the ganglia cluster monitoring toolkit, which could be triggered via a request with long path names and might enable
arbitrary code execution.
For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.5.7-3.1etch1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 2.5.7-5.
For the testing distribution (lenny), this problem will be fixed soon.
We recommend that you upgrade your ganglia-monitor-core packages.
Upgrade instructions
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wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.
If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:
apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages
You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.
Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 alias etch
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