gmetad in Ganglia 3.1.1, when supporting multiple requests per connection on an interactive port, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a request to the gmetad service with a path that does not exist, which causes Ganglia to (1) perform excessive CPU computation and (2) send the entire tree, which consumes network bandwidth. NOTE: the vendor and original researcher have disputed this issue, since legitimate requests can generate the same amount of resource consumption. CVE concurs with the dispute, so this identifier should not be used
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: REJECTED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2009-01-21T11:00:00

Updated: 2017-08-07T12:57:01

Reserved: 2009-01-20T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2009-0242

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Rejected

Published: 2009-01-21T11:30:04.233

Modified: 2023-11-07T02:03:36.253

Link: CVE-2009-0242

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2009-01-13T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2009-0242 - Bugzilla