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From: Pierre-Yves Rofes <py@g.o>
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Subject: [gentoo-announce] [ GLSA 200903-40 ] Analog: Denial of Service
Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2009 21:41:36
Message-Id: 49CFEAE9.8020804@gentoo.org
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2 Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200903-40
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7 Severity: Normal
8 Title: Analog: Denial of Service
9 Date: March 29, 2009
10 Bugs: #249140
11 ID: 200903-40
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15 Synopsis
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18 A Denial of Service vulnerability was discovered in Analog.
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20 Background
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23 Analog is a a webserver log analyzer.
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25 Affected packages
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29 Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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31 1 app-admin/analog < 6.0-r2 >= 6.0-r2
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33 Description
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36 Diego E. Petteno reported that the Analog package in Gentoo is built
37 with its own copy of bzip2, making it vulnerable to CVE-2008-1372 (GLSA
38 200804-02).
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40 Impact
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43 A local attacker could place specially crafted log files into a log
44 directory being analyzed by analog, e.g. /var/log/apache, resulting in
45 a crash when being processed by the application.
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47 Workaround
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50 There is no known workaround at this time.
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52 Resolution
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55 All Analog users should upgrade to the latest version:
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57 # emerge --sync
58 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-admin/analog-6.0-r2"
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60 NOTE: Analog is now linked against the system bzip2 library.
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62 References
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65 [ 1 ] CVE-2008-1372
66 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-1372
67 [ 2 ] GLSA 200804-02
68 http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200804-02.xml
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70 Availability
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73 This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at
74 the Gentoo Security Website:
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76 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200903-40.xml
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78 Concerns?
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81 Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the
82 confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost
83 importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to
84 security@g.o or alternatively, you may file a bug at
85 http://bugs.gentoo.org.
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87 License
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90 Copyright 2009 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text
91 belongs to its owner(s).
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93 The contents of this document are licensed under the
94 Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license.
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96 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5

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