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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory                           GLSA 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
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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
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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
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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
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There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution
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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
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  [ 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
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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?
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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