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Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2012 17:41:48 +0200
From: Steve Schnepp <steve.schnepp@...il.com>
To: Kurt Seifried <kseifried@...hat.com>, 668667@...s.debian.org
Cc: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com, Helmut Grohne <helmut@...divi.de>, 
	Jan Lieskovsky <jlieskov@...hat.com>, "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>
Subject: Re: Bug#668667: CVE Request (minor) -- Two Munin
 graphing framework flaws

On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 07:04, Kurt Seifried <kseifried@...hat.com> wrote:
>> In addition munin parses parts of the query string. You are allowed
>> to modify the size of the image. By choosing a path
>> "....png?size_x=20000&size_y=20000&uniquestuff" you can do the
>> same attack while simultaneously using a large image size. The raw
>> image would be 381M (assuming 8bits/pixel) in this case. A png
>> version will likely be smaller, say 4M? So now you have an
>> amplification of 4M/request. Note that this query can get a node
>> into swapping, because rrdtool needs to create the whole image in
>> main memory.

> Ouch.

I believe I fixed the bug in r4825, since :
- url with query string aren't stored permanently anymore.
- /tmp isn't used anymore per default (to fix #668536)

Could you confirm that ?

OTOH, the issue about very big imgs that gets the cgi into swapping
isn't the same bug to be.

As Helmut noticed, there is already a size cap in rrd, so do I still
need implement one in munin ? If yes, would you mind to file another
bugreport (for RAM exhaustion) ?

Thx !

r4825: http://munin-monitoring.org/changeset/4825

--
Steve Schnepp
http://blog.pwkf.org/

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