GLSA 200903-40: Analog: Denial of Service

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Severity:	normal
Title:	Analog: Denial of Service
Date:	03/29/2009
Bugs:	#249140
ID:	200903-40

Synopsis

A Denial of Service vulnerability was discovered in Analog.

Background

Analog is a a webserver log analyzer.

Affected packages

Package	Vulnerable	Unaffected	Architecture(s)
app-admin/analog	< 6.0-r2	>= 6.0-r2	All supported architectures

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

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?

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