DSA 2039-1: New cacti packages fix missing input sanitising

Posted by Bob on: 04/23/2010 09:05 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-2039-1 security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/ Thijs Kinkhorst
April 23, 2010 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package : cacti
Vulnerability : missing input sanitising
Problem type : remote
Debian-specific: no
Debian Bug : 578909

It was discovered that Cacti, a frontend to rrdtool for monitoring
systems and services missed input sanitising, making an SQL injection
attack possible.

For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in
version 0.8.7b-2.1+lenny2.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem will be fixed soon.

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 5.0 alias lenny
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Source archives:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cacti/cacti_0.8.7b-2.1+lenny2.diff.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 37338 16b43e80a447a185f5372372836104ed
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cacti/cacti_0.8.7b.orig.tar.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 1972444 aa8a740a6ab88e3634b546c3e1bc502f
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cacti/cacti_0.8.7b-2.1+lenny2.dsc
Size/MD5 checksum: 1408 468d418ebedfd326081cbb159c159b55

Architecture independent packages:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cacti/cacti_0.8.7b-2.1+lenny2_all.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 1826020 b88356b2559091ae8444b93b5234e881

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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