It has been reported that Ganglia gmond is prone to denial of service attacks when handling malformed packets. Specifically, a packet with a name string of 1 byte will be handled in an unexpected manner, possibly causing an invalid pointer dereference. This would effectively cause the program to crash.
It has been reported that Ganglia gmond is prone to denial of service attacks when handling malformed packets. Specifically, a packet with a name string of 1 byte will be handled in an unexpected manner, possibly causing an invalid pointer dereference. This would effectively cause the program to crash.