1. Gentoo Linux Security Advisory
| Advisory Reference | GLSA 200903-40 / analog |
| Release Date | March 29, 2009 |
| Latest Revision | March 29, 2009: 01 |
| Impact | normal |
| Exploitable | local |
| Package | Vulnerable versions | Unaffected versions | Architecture(s) |
| app-admin/analog | < 6.0-r2 | >= 6.0-r2 | All supported architectures |
Related bugreports: #249140
A Denial of Service vulnerability was discovered in Analog.
Analog is a a webserver log analyzer.
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).
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.
There is no known workaround at this time.
All Analog users should upgrade to the latest version:
Code Listing 3.1: Resolution |
# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-admin/analog-6.0-r2" |
NOTE: Analog is now linked against the system bzip2 library.