Ganglia gmond denial of service
| ganglia-gmond-dos (13631) |  Medium Risk |
Description:
Ganglia is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a vulnerability in gmond. A remote attacker could send a specially-crafted packet to cause Ganglia to crash.
Consequences:
Denial of Service
Remedy:
No remedy available as of May 1, 2013.
References:
- BugTraq Mailing List, Thu Nov 06 2003 - 15:33:18 CST : DoS for Ganglia.
- BID-8988: Ganglia gmond Malformed Packet Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability
- CVE-2003-1163: hash.c in Ganglia gmond 2.5.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) via a UDP packet that contains a single-byte name string, which is used as an out-of-bounds array index.
- OSVDB ID: 2787: Ganglia gmond Malcrafted UDP DoS
- SA10166: Ganglia gmond Denial of Service Vulnerability
Platforms Affected:
- Ganglia Ganglia 2.5.3
Reported:
Nov 06, 2003
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