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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200403-14 |
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http://security.gentoo.org |
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Severity: High |
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Title: Multiple Security Vulnerabilities in Monit |
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Date: March 31, 2004 |
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Bugs: #43967 |
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ID: 200403-14 |
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Synopsis |
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A denial of service and a buffer overflow vulnerability have been found |
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in Monit. |
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Background |
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Monit is a system administration utility that allows management and |
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monitoring of processes, files, directories and devices on a Unix |
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system. |
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Affected packages |
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected |
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app-admin/monit <= 4.1 >= 4.2 |
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Description |
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A denial of service may occur due to Monit not sanitizing remotely |
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supplied HTTP parameters before passing them to memory allocation |
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functions. This could allow an attacker to cause an unexpected |
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condition that could lead to the Monit daemon crashing. |
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An overly long http request method may cause a buffer overflow due to |
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Monit performing insufficient bounds checking when handling HTTP |
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requests. |
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Impact |
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An attacker may crash the Monit daemon to create a denial of service |
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condition or cause a buffer overflow that would allow arbitrary code to |
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be executed with root privileges. |
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Workaround |
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A workaround is not currently known for this issue. All users are |
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advised to upgrade to the latest version of the affected package. |
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Resolution |
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Monit users should upgrade to version 4.2 or later: |
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# emerge sync |
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# emerge -pv ">=app-admin/monit-4.2" |
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# emerge ">=app-admin/monit-4.2" |
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References |
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[ 1 ] http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/9098 |
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[ 2 ] http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/9099 |
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Concerns? |
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Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the |
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confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost |
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importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to |
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security@g.o or alternatively, you may file a bug at |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org. |
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