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amazonAmazonALAS-2016-739
HistorySep 01, 2016 - 6:00 p.m.

Medium: collectd

2016-09-0118:00:00
alas.aws.amazon.com
11

9.1 High

CVSS3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

6.4 Medium

CVSS2

Access Vector

Access Complexity

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

0.054 Low

EPSS

Percentile

93.2%

Issue Overview:

A heap-based buffer overflow in the parse_packet function in network.c in collectd allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted network packet.

Affected Packages:

collectd

Issue Correction:
Run yum update collectd to update your system.

New Packages:

i686:  
    collectd-gmond-5.4.1-1.11.amzn1.i686  
    collectd-java-5.4.1-1.11.amzn1.i686  
    collectd-lvm-5.4.1-1.11.amzn1.i686  
    collectd-bind-5.4.1-1.11.amzn1.i686  
    collectd-ipvs-5.4.1-1.11.amzn1.i686  
    collectd-rrdcached-5.4.1-1.11.amzn1.i686  
    collectd-generic-jmx-5.4.1-1.11.amzn1.i686  
    collectd-amqp-5.4.1-1.11.amzn1.i686  
    collectd-memcachec-5.4.1-1.11.amzn1.i686  
    collectd-postgresql-5.4.1-1.11.amzn1.i686  
    collectd-web-5.4.1-1.11.amzn1.i686  
    collectd-dbi-5.4.1-1.11.amzn1.i686  
    collectd-email-5.4.1-1.11.amzn1.i686  
    collectd-mysql-5.4.1-1.11.amzn1.i686  
    collectd-rrdtool-5.4.1-1.11.amzn1.i686  
    collectd-curl_xml-5.4.1-1.11.amzn1.i686  
    collectd-nginx-5.4.1-1.11.amzn1.i686  
    collectd-snmp-5.4.1-1.11.amzn1.i686  
    perl-Collectd-5.4.1-1.11.amzn1.i686  
    collectd-curl-5.4.1-1.11.amzn1.i686  
    collectd-notify_email-5.4.1-1.11.amzn1.i686  
    collectd-debuginfo-5.4.1-1.11.amzn1.i686  
    collectd-ipmi-5.4.1-1.11.amzn1.i686  
    collectd-5.4.1-1.11.amzn1.i686  
    collectd-iptables-5.4.1-1.11.amzn1.i686  
    collectd-dns-5.4.1-1.11.amzn1.i686  
    collectd-varnish-5.4.1-1.11.amzn1.i686  
    collectd-apache-5.4.1-1.11.amzn1.i686  
    collectd-netlink-5.4.1-1.11.amzn1.i686  
  
src:  
    collectd-5.4.1-1.11.amzn1.src  
  
x86_64:  
    collectd-web-5.4.1-1.11.amzn1.x86_64  
    collectd-5.4.1-1.11.amzn1.x86_64  
    collectd-postgresql-5.4.1-1.11.amzn1.x86_64  
    collectd-gmond-5.4.1-1.11.amzn1.x86_64  
    collectd-mysql-5.4.1-1.11.amzn1.x86_64  
    collectd-snmp-5.4.1-1.11.amzn1.x86_64  
    collectd-rrdcached-5.4.1-1.11.amzn1.x86_64  
    collectd-varnish-5.4.1-1.11.amzn1.x86_64  
    collectd-notify_email-5.4.1-1.11.amzn1.x86_64  
    collectd-apache-5.4.1-1.11.amzn1.x86_64  
    collectd-generic-jmx-5.4.1-1.11.amzn1.x86_64  
    collectd-lvm-5.4.1-1.11.amzn1.x86_64  
    collectd-rrdtool-5.4.1-1.11.amzn1.x86_64  
    collectd-memcachec-5.4.1-1.11.amzn1.x86_64  
    collectd-netlink-5.4.1-1.11.amzn1.x86_64  
    collectd-java-5.4.1-1.11.amzn1.x86_64  
    collectd-ipvs-5.4.1-1.11.amzn1.x86_64  
    collectd-ipmi-5.4.1-1.11.amzn1.x86_64  
    collectd-bind-5.4.1-1.11.amzn1.x86_64  
    collectd-debuginfo-5.4.1-1.11.amzn1.x86_64  
    collectd-email-5.4.1-1.11.amzn1.x86_64  
    collectd-dbi-5.4.1-1.11.amzn1.x86_64  
    collectd-curl_xml-5.4.1-1.11.amzn1.x86_64  
    collectd-nginx-5.4.1-1.11.amzn1.x86_64  
    collectd-curl-5.4.1-1.11.amzn1.x86_64  
    collectd-dns-5.4.1-1.11.amzn1.x86_64  
    perl-Collectd-5.4.1-1.11.amzn1.x86_64  
    collectd-iptables-5.4.1-1.11.amzn1.x86_64  
    collectd-amqp-5.4.1-1.11.amzn1.x86_64  

Additional References

Red Hat: CVE-2016-6254

Mitre: CVE-2016-6254

9.1 High

CVSS3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

6.4 Medium

CVSS2

Access Vector

Access Complexity

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

0.054 Low

EPSS

Percentile

93.2%