A Denial of Service vulnerability was discovered in Analog.

Announced

2009-03-29

Revised

2009-03-29

Access

local

Bugs

#249140

Advisory

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/200903-40

Affected packages

Package	Arch	Vulnerable	Unaffected
app-admin/analog	*	< 6.0-r2	>= 6.0-r2

Background

Analog is a a webserver log analyzer.

Description

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).

Impact

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.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All Analog users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-admin/analog-6.0-r2"

NOTE: Analog is now linked against the system bzip2 library.

References

• CVE-2008-1372
• GLSA 200804-02