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Debian 3.0 DSA 164-1 Critical: Cacti Remote Code Execution

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Calendar Grey September 10, 2002
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory
A problem in cacti, a PHP based frontend to rrdtool for monitoringsystems and services, has been discovered

Summary

A problem in cacti, a PHP based frontend to rrdtool for monitoring
systems and services, has been discovered. This could lead into cacti
executing arbitrary program code under the user id of the web server.
This problem, however, is only persistant to users who already have
administrator privileges in the cacti system.

This problem has been fixed by removing any dollar signs and backticks
from the title string in version 0.6.7-2.1 for the current stable
distribution (woody) and in version 0.6.8a-2 for the unstable
distribution (sid). The old stable distribution (potato) is not
affected since it doesn't contain the cacti package.

We recommend that you upgrade your cacti package immediately.

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 ...

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Package: cacti

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