Bug 663797 (CVE-2010-4336)

Summary:	CVE-2010-4336 collectd: DoS via the RRDtool and RRDCacheD plugins
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Vincent Danen <vdanen>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version:	unspecified	CC:	apevec, rjones, virt-maint
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Description Vincent Danen 2010-12-16 21:07:39 UTC

It was reported [1],[2] that collectd is vulnerable to a denial of service condition via the RRDtool and RRDCacheD plugins.  These plugins, when creating a new RRD file, assert that the timestamp included with a value is greater than 10, however this condition is never actually checked anywhere, making it possible for the assertion to fail.

The code causing this problem appeared in version 4.0.8 (commit 9d52ed5f) and has been corrected upstream (commit 11893a7c), meaning it has been corrected in upstream versions 4.9.4 and 4.10.2 [2].  This affects all versions of collectd as shipped with Fedora.

[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=605092
[2] http://secunia.com/advisories/42393/
[3] http://collectd.org/news.shtml#news86

Comment 1 Vincent Danen 2010-12-16 21:09:46 UTC

Created collectd tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-all [bug 663799]

Comment 2 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-06-10 10:57:31 UTC

This CVE Bugzilla entry is for community support informational purposes only as it does not affect a package in a commercially supported Red Hat product. Refer to the dependent bugs for status of those individual community products.