Debian DSA-1569-2 Critical: Cacti Input Sanitization Issue
debian
May 6, 2008
It was discovered that Cacti, a systems and services monitoring frontend,
performed insufficient input sanitising, leading to cross site scripting
and SQL injection being possi...
Summary
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
Size/MD5 checksum: 873 347b6ffce9bc1383dd5885ebc7a23743
Size/MD5 checksum: 36755 4068c87a907a7b964b6d2bcdd1cca7c0
Size/MD5 checksum: 1122700 341b5828d95db91f81f5fbba65411d63
Architecture independent packages:
Size/MD5 checksum: 959548 0735465...
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