CVE-2008-6560 Information

Description

Buffer overflow in CMAN - The Cluster Manager before 2.03.09-1 on Fedora 9 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption and memory corruption) via a cluster.conf file with many lines. NOTE: it is not clear whether this issue crosses privilege boundaries in realistic uses of the product.

Reference

http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/cluster.git?p=cluster.git;a=commitdiff;h=67fee9128e54c6c3fc3eae306b5b501f3029c3be http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-November/msg00163.html http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-November/msg00164.html http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-November/msg00165.html http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-875-1 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=468966 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/49832