1. Gentoo Linux Security Advisory
| Advisory Reference | GLSA 200411-02 / cherokee |
| Release Date | November 01, 2004 |
| Latest Revision | May 22, 2006: 02 |
| Impact | high |
| Exploitable | remote |
| Package | Vulnerable versions | Unaffected versions | Architecture(s) |
| www-servers/cherokee | <= 0.4.17 | >= 0.4.17.1 | All supported architectures |
Related bugreports: #67667
Cherokee contains a format string vulnerability that could lead to denial of service or the execution of arbitary code.
Cherokee is an extra-light web server.
Florian Schilhabel from the Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team found a format string vulnerability in the cherokee_logger_ncsa_write_string() function.
Using a specially crafted URL when authenticating via auth_pam, a malicious user may be able to crash the server or execute arbitrary code on the target machine with permissions of the user running Cherokee.
There is no known workaround at this time.
All Cherokee users should upgrade to the latest version:
Code Listing 3.1: Resolution |
# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=www-servers/cherokee-0.4.17.1" |