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-3.5.
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: 581 6184cdfb6a4e7a5372d684556aa46537
Size/MD5 checksum: 37154 dc53c27c1584999db93a83be1bf43879
Architecture independent packages:
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