- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Debian Security Advisory DSA-2039-1 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. https://www.debian.org/security/ Thijs Kinkhorst April 23, 2010 https://www.debian.org/security/faq - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 - -------------------- 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 - -------------------------------- Source archives: https://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cacti/cacti_0.8.7b-2.1+lenny2.diff.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 37338 16b43e80a447a185f5372372836104ed https://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cacti/cacti_0.8.7b.orig.tar.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 1972444 aa8a740a6ab88e3634b546c3e1bc502f https://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cacti/cacti_0.8.7b-2.1+lenny2.dsc Size/MD5 checksum: 1408 468d418ebedfd326081cbb159c159b55 Architecture independent packages: https://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. - --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For apt-get: deb https://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main For dpkg-ftp: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security dists/stable/updates/main Mailing list: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Package info: `apt-cache show' and https://packages.debian.org/
Debian: DSA-2039-1: New cacti packages fix missing input sanitising
It was discovered that Cacti, a frontend to rrdtool for monitoring systems and services missed input sanitising, making an SQL injection attack possible.
