ganglia -- buffer overflow vulnerability

Secunia reports:

Spike Spiegel has discovered a vulnerability in Ganglia which
can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a
vulnerable system. The vulnerability is caused due to a
boundary error within the process_path function in
gmetad/server.c. This can be exploited to cause a stack-based
buffer overflow by e.g. sending a specially crafted message to
the gmetad service.
The vulnerability is confirmed in version 3.1.1. Other
versions may also be affected.