[rrd-developers] rrdcached possible bug

[Tobias Oetiker]

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
> yoyo at opennet.ro
>
>
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