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GLSA-200903-40 : Analog: Denial of Service

medium Nessus Plugin ID 36048

Synopsis

The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200903-40 (Analog: Denial of Service)

 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.

Solution

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.

See Also

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/200804-02

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/200903-40

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 36048

File Name: gentoo_GLSA-200903-40.nasl

Version: 1.16

Type: local

Published: 3/30/2009

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:analog, cpe:/o:gentoo:linux

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Gentoo/release, Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list

Patch Publication Date: 3/29/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-1372

CWE: 119

GLSA: 200903-40