Re: rrdcached possible bug
Tobias Oetiker <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.db.rrdtool.devel |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Hi Adrian, Today Adrian-Ioan Vasile wrote: > Hi all, > > 1. I found an apparent bug in the journaling system of rrdcached. > When specifying a relative path (-j option) it would segfault > when trying to read past journals (journal_init function). > > So, for this reason, I added an extra check to journal_init > before reading the directory, and, when parsing the command line > options, to expand the relative path to an absolute path. > > Here's the patch. thanks > > 2. Why implement any security into rrdcached for the reason that > only authorized hosts may connect to it via tcp/udp and this can > be done with local tools such as iptables. in my world, there may be multiple users with different security clerance working on a single host ... so the curent solution is not really sufficient ... cheers tobi > > Thanks for this great product, > Adrian-Ioan Vasile > [email protected] > > > > -- Tobi Oetiker, OETIKER+PARTNER AG, Aarweg 15 CH-4600 Olten, Switzerland http://it.oetiker.ch [email protected] ++41 62 775 9902 / sb: -9900