Debian: cacti fix regression DSA-1569-2
Summary
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------Debian Security Advisory DSA-1569-2 security@debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/ Thijs Kinkhorst May 06, 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 The original update for cacti unfortunately introduced a regression. Updated packages have been created to address this. For reference, the full advisory text is quoted below. 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-3.4. 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: 873 347b6ffce9bc1383dd5885ebc7a23743 Size/MD5 checksum: 36755 4068c87a907a7b964b6d2bcdd1cca7c0 Size/MD5 checksum: 1122700 341b5828d95db91f81f5fbba65411d63 Architecture independent packages: Size/MD5 checksum: 959548 07354653cd9ee64f97149d0142dee156 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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