Check Point Advisories

Ganglia Meta Daemon process_path Stack Buffer Overflow (CVE-2009-0241)

Vulnerability
Protection

Check Point Reference:	CPAI-2009-362
Date Published:	27 Oct 2009
Severity:	Medium
Last Updated:	Tuesday 08 January, 2013
Source:
Industry Reference:	CVE-2009-0241
Protection Provided by:	Security Gateway R81, R80, R77, R75
Who is Vulnerable?
Vulnerability Description	Ganglia is a scalable distributed monitoring system for high-performance computing systems such as clusters and Grids. It is based on a hierarchical design targeted at federations of clusters. It relies on a multicast-based listen/announce protocol to monitor state within clusters and uses a tree of point-to-point connections amongst representative cluster nodes to federate clusters and aggregate their state. There exists a buffer overflow vulnerability in Ganglia Meta Daemon. The vulnerability is a boundary error while processing a long path element. A remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability by sending a malicious request to server. Successful exploitation may lead to arbitrary code execution in the security context of the logged in user. In an attack case where code injection is successful, the behaviour of the target is entirely dependent on the intended function of the injected code. The code in such a case would execute within the security context of the logged in user. In an attack case where code injection is not successful, the affected Ganglia process will terminate abnormally.

Protection Overview

This protection will detect and block attempts to exploit this vulnerability

In order for the protection to be activated, update your Security Gateway product to the latest IPS update. For information on how to update IPS, go to SBP-2006-05, click on Protection tab and select the version of your choice.

Security Gateway R80 / R77 / R75

In the IPS tab, click Protections and find the Ganglia Meta Daemon process_path Stack Buffer Overflow protection using the Search tool and Edit the protection's settings.
Install policy on all Security Gateways.

This protection's log will contain the following information:

Attack Name: Application Servers Protection Violation.
Attack Information: Ganglia Meta Daemon process_path stack buffer overflow