[Xymon] Xymon version 4.3.4 available

Henrik Størner henrik at hswn.dk
Mon Aug 1 23:48:06 CEST 2011


Hi,

I have just uploaded version 4.3.4 of Xymon to Sourceforge, and it 
should be available from all of the mirror-sites shortly.

This version fixes some rather nasty bugs, which could lead to data 
corruption of client messages (typically this would trigger wrong data 
for various statuses and spurious creation of disk RRD files) - I would 
like to thank Greg Shea for working with me to diagnose and fix this 
problem.

Another important bugfix resolves the issue of acknowledgment cookies 
not being recognised after a while.

Several other bugs that could cause various crashes, lockup and other 
nastiness were also fixed - see the full list below - so I strongly 
recommend that you upgrade to this version.


Regards,
Henrik

Changes from 4.3.3 to 4.3.4:

* Fix crashes and data corruption in Xymon worker modules
   (xymond_client, xymond_rrd etc) after handling large
   messages.
* Fix xymond lock-up when renaming/deleting hosts
* Fix xymond cookie lookup mechanism
* Webpages: Add new HOSTPOPUP setting to control what values from
   hosts.cfg are displayed as a "comment" to the hostname (either
   in pop-up's or next to the hostname).
* Fix xymond_client crash if analysis.cfg contains invalid
   configuration entries, e.g. expressions that do not compile.
* Fix showgraph CGI crash when legends contain colon.
* xymonnet: Include hostname when reporting erroneous test-spec
* CGI utils: Multiple potential security fixes involving buffer-
   overruns when generating responses.
* CGI utils: Fix crash when invoked with HTTP "HEAD"
* CGI utils: Fix crashes on 64-bit platforms due to missing prototype
   of "basename()" function.
* svcstatus CGI: Dont crash if history log is not a file.
* Critical systems view CGI: Cross-site scripting fix
* Fix recovery-messages for alerts sent to a GROUP
* RRD "memory" status handler now recognizes the output from the
   bb-xsnmp.pl module (for Cisco routers).
* Web templates modified so the menu CSS can override the default
   body CSS.
* Acknowledge web page now allows selecting minutes/hours/days
* Enable/Disable webpage enhanced, so when selecting multiple hosts
   the "Tests" column only lists the tests those hosts have.




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