CVE-2009-0242

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Summary

CVECVE-2009-0242
StateREJECT
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2009-01-21 11:30:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 02:03:00 UTC
Description** REJECT ** gmetad in Ganglia 3.1.1, when supporting multiple requests per connection on an interactive port, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a request to the gmetad service with a path that does not exist, which causes Ganglia to (1) perform excessive CPU computation and (2) send the entire tree, which consumes network bandwidth. NOTE: the vendor and original researcher have disputed this issue, since legitimate requests can generate the same amount of resource consumption. CVE concurs with the dispute, so this identifier should not be used.

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Bug 480960 – CVE-2009-0242 ganglia: gmetad temporary DoS via resource consumption MITRE bugzilla.redhat.com
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Vendor Comments And Credit

OrganizationPublishedContributorStatement
Red Hat2009-01-22Joshua BressersRed Hat does not consider this to be a security issue. For more information, please see the following bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2009-0242

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