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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory 200903-40

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory 200903-40
Posted Mar 30, 2009
Authored by Gentoo | Site security.gentoo.org

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200903-40 - A Denial of Service vulnerability was discovered in Analog. 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). Versions less than 6.0-r2 are affected.

tags | advisory, denial of service
systems | linux, gentoo
advisories | CVE-2008-1372
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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory 200903-40

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Severity: Normal
Title: Analog: Denial of Service
Date: March 29, 2009
Bugs: #249140
ID: 200903-40

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Synopsis
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A Denial of Service vulnerability was discovered in Analog.

Background
==========

Analog is a a webserver log analyzer.

Affected packages
=================

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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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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
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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



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