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Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2012 18:37:09 -0600
From: Kurt Seifried <kseifried@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
CC: Helmut Grohne <helmut@...divi.de>, Jan Lieskovsky <jlieskov@...hat.com>,
        "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>, 668667@...s.debian.org
Subject: Re: CVE Request (minor) -- Two Munin graphing framework
 flaws

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On 04/17/2012 11:16 PM, Helmut Grohne wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 11:04:56PM -0600, Kurt Seifried wrote:
>> On 04/16/2012 11:34 PM, Helmut Grohne wrote:
>>> The basic requirement is that a plugin called vmstat is
>>> configured for the node localhost.localdomain. I just picked it
>>> as an example, cause it is present on my system. In practise
>>> any plugin for any host will do.
>> 
>> Is this the default configuration?
> 
> I am not that sure about the defaults, because I changed them.
> However running a Munin without any plugins is pointless. It is
> like running a mail server that does not transport any mail. You
> don't even have to guess the name of a configured plugin, because
> those images are linked from the html. Finding a configured plugin
> is really no issue on any sane munin installation. Sane
> administrators may have to restricted access to munin to themselves
> as to not expose the monitoring results to the public though.
> 
> Helmut

If anyone can comment on this (default/not), and if you install a
plugin does it expose it publicly or does the administrator have to
enable remote access?

- -- 
Kurt Seifried Red Hat Security Response Team (SRT)
PGP: 0x5E267993 A90B F995 7350 148F 66BF 7554 160D 4553 5E26 7993

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