Debian: New cacti packages fix multiple vulnerabilities
Summary
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------Debian Security Advisory DSA-1569-1 security@debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/ Thijs Kinkhorst May 05, 2008 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - ------------------------------------------------------------------------Package : cacti Vulnerability : insufficient input sanitising Problem type : remote Debian-specific: no CVE Id(s) : CVE-2008-0783 CVE-2008-0785 It was discovered that Cacti, a systems and services monitoring frontend, performed insufficient input sanitising, leading to cross site scripting and SQL injection being possible. For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 0.8.6i-3.3. 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 - -------------------------------Source archives: 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 distribution on its next update. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main For dpkg-ftp: dists/stable/updates/main Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
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