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Debian: DSA-1569-1 Moderate: Cacti Input Sanitization Remote Threat

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Calendar Grey May 5, 2008
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Debian DSA-1570-2 tackles input validation flaws within nufw, which lead to potential command injection and XSS threats.
It was discovered that Cacti, a systems and services monitoring frontend, performed insufficient input sanitising, leading to cross site scripting and SQL injection being possibl...

Summary


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
- --------------------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

Size/MD5 checksum: 1122700 341b5828d95db91f81f5fbba65411d63
Size/MD5 checksum: 36683 4b795036336167be4bf6cd2ef2987114
Size/MD5 checksum: 873 74f26b805c7cf676f573000b50230179

Architecture independent packages:

Size/MD5 checksum: 959394 a9d1a594ff7d2386b28296a2c8909cd5


These files will probably be moved into the stable distrib...

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