Share

Parallel Distributed Shell

Code

Programming Languages: C

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Repositories

browse code, statistics cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@pdsh.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/pdsh login

cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@pdsh.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/pdsh co -P modulename

Show:

What's happening?

  • ltdl.c has a security vulnerability

    I believe the copy of ltdl.c that ships with pdsh has a security vulnerability: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-3736 However, the way that pdsh uses it appears to be safe. Since, pdsh only calls lt_dlopen on a fixed directory that is only writeable by root, the vulnerability cannot be exploited. Still, it would probably be a good idea to pull a copy of ltdl.c...

    2009-12-07 05:44:09 UTC by bpellin

Our Numbers