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Debian: DSA-3495-1 Moderate: Xymon Security Flaws and Risks

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The recent Debian Advisory DSA-3495-1 tackles security vulnerabilities present in the xymon software, which is utilized for monitoring network performance.
Markus Krell discovered that xymon, a network- and applications-monitoring system, was vulnerable to the following security issues:

Summary

CVE-2016-2054

The incorrect handling of user-supplied input in the "config"
command can trigger a stack-based buffer overflow, resulting in
denial of service (via application crash) or remote code execution.

CVE-2016-2055

The incorrect handling of user-supplied input in the "config"
command can lead to an information leak by serving sensitive
configuration files to a remote user.

CVE-2016-2056

The commands handling password management do not properly validate
user-supplied input, and are thus vulnerable to shell command
injection by a remote user.

CVE-2016-2057

Incorrect permissions on an internal queuing system allow a user
with a local account on the xymon master server to bypass all
network-based access control lists, and thus inject messages
directly into xymon.

CVE-2016-2058

Incorrect escaping of user-supplied input in status webpages can
be used to trigger reflected cross-site scripting attacks.

For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in
v...

Read the Full Advisory

Package: xymon
CVE ID: CVE-2016-2054 CVE-2016-2055 CVE-2016-2056 CVE-2016-2057

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