National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2011-0401

Overview

Piwik before 1.1 does not properly limit the number of files stored under tmp/sessions/, which might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (inode consumption) by establishing many sessions.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

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External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://piwik.org/blog/2011/01/piwik-1-1-2/

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://piwik.org/blog/2011/01/piwik-1-1-2/

External Source: XF

Name: piwik-sessions-dos(64638)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/64638

External Source: BID

Name: 45787

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45787

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 70381

Hyperlink:http://osvdb.org/70381

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://dev.piwik.org/trac/ticket/1910

Hyperlink:http://dev.piwik.org/trac/ticket/1910

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://dev.piwik.org/trac/ticket/1279#comment:13

Hyperlink:http://dev.piwik.org/trac/ticket/1279#comment:13