[19203] in bugtraq
Security advisory for analog
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen Turner)
Tue Feb 13 20:17:56 2001
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Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 18:51:30 +0000
Reply-To: Stephen Turner <sret1@cam.ac.uk>
From: Stephen Turner <S.R.E.Turner@STATSLAB.CAM.AC.UK>
To: BUGTRAQ@SECURITYFOCUS.COM
SECURITY ADVISORY 13th February 2001
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Program: analog (logfile analysis program)
Versions: all versions except 4.16 and 4.90beta3
Operating systems: all
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There is a buffer overflow bug in all versions of analog released
prior to today. A malicious user could use an ALIAS command to
construct very long strings which were not checked for length.
This bug is particularly dangerous if the form interface (which allows
unknown users to run the program via a CGI script) has been installed.
This bug was discovered by the program author, and there is no known
exploit. However, users are advised to upgrade to one of the two safe
versions immediately, especially if they have installed the form
interface. The URL is http://www.analog.cx/
I apologise for the inconvenience.
Stephen Turner
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