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Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-6560

Original release date:03/31/2009

Last revised:12/23/2009

Source: US-CERT/NIST

Overview

Buffer overflow in CMAN - The Cluster Manager before 2.03.09-1 on Fedora 9 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption and memory corruption) via a cluster.conf file with many lines. NOTE: it is not clear whether this issue crosses privilege boundaries in realistic uses of the product.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS v2 Base Score:7.8 (HIGH) (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C) (legend)

Impact Subscore: 6.9

Exploitability Subscore: 10.0

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

Access Vector: Network exploitable

Access Complexity: Low

Authentication: Not required to exploit

Impact Type:Allows disruption of serviceUnknown

Vendor Statements (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Red Hat (08/04/2009)

Red Hat does not consider this to be a security issue. The misbehaviour of CMAN is triggered by corrupted / specially crafted cluster.conf configuration file. Ability to edit this file is restricted to system administrator, therefore no privilege boundary is crossed.

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External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=468966

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=468966

External Source: XF

Name: cman-clusterconf-dos(49832)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/49832

External Source: UBUNTU

Name: USN-875-1

Hyperlink:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-875-1

External Source: FEDORA

Name: FEDORA-2008-9458