DSA 1569-2: New cacti packages fix regression

Posted by Bob on: 05/06/2008 12:30 PM [ Print | 0 comment(s) ]

The Debian Security Team published a new security update for Debian GNU/Linux. Here the announcement:

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Debian Security Advisory DSA-1569-2 security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/ Thijs Kinkhorst
May 06, 2008 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package : cacti
Vulnerability : insufficient input sanitising
Problem type : remote
Debian-specific: no
CVE Id(s) : CVE-2008-0783 CVE-2008-0785

The original update for cacti unfortunately introduced a regression.
Updated packages have been created to address this. For reference, the
full advisory text is quoted below.

It was discovered that Cacti, a systems and services monitoring frontend,
performed insufficient input sanitising, leading to cross site scripting
and SQL injection being possible.

For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in
version 0.8.6i-3.4.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 0.8.7b-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your cacti package.

Upgrade instructions
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wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.

If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:

apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages

You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.

Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 alias etch
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Source archives:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cacti/cacti_0.8.6i-3.4.dsc
Size/MD5 checksum: 873 347b6ffce9bc1383dd5885ebc7a23743
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cacti/cacti_0.8.6i-3.4.diff.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 36755 4068c87a907a7b964b6d2bcdd1cca7c0
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cacti/cacti_0.8.6i.orig.tar.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 1122700 341b5828d95db91f81f5fbba65411d63

Architecture independent packages:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cacti/cacti_0.8.6i-3.4_all.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 959548 07354653cd9ee64f97149d0142dee156

These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on
its next update.

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For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main
For dpkg-ftp: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security dists/stable/updates/main
Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
Package info: `apt-cache show lt;pkggt;' and http://packages.debian.org/lt;pkggt;
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