GLSA 201309-17: Monkey HTTP Daemon: Multiple vulnerabilities

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Severity:	high
Title:	Monkey HTTP Daemon: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date:	09/25/2013
Bugs:	#471906, #472400, #472644
ID:	201309-17

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Monkey HTTP Daemon, the worst of which could result in arbitrary code execution.

Background

Monkey HTTP Daemon is a lightweight and powerful web server for GNU/Linux.

Affected packages

Package	Vulnerable	Unaffected	Architecture(s)
www-servers/monkeyd	< 1.2.2	>= 1.2.2	All supported architectures

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Monkey HTTP Daemon. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

Impact

A remote attacker could send a specially crafted request, resulting in possible arbitrary code execution or a Denial of Service condition.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All Monkey HTTP Daemon users should upgrade to the latest version:

      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=www-servers/monkeyd-1.2.2"

References

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201309-17.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 https://bugs.gentoo.org.