CVE-2013-2131

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2013-04-18
Bugzilla:
969296: CVE-2013-2131 rrdtool: crashes on format string exploit

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

Format string vulnerability in the rrdtool module 1.4.7 for Python, as used in Zenoss, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via format string specifiers to the rrdtool.graph function.

Find out more about CVE-2013-2131 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

Red Hat Security Response Team does not consider this flaw to be a security issue, since this is a documented feature of the application.

CVSS v2 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score 5
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Low
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact Partial

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Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 rrdtool Will not fix

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