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Debian: DSA 1086-2 Essential: Cacti Security Flaw Revealed

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Calendar Grey June 2, 2006
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A serious denial of service vulnerability exists in Debian's xmcd package, enabling unauthorized users to crash the application. Prompt patch implementation is recommended to mitigate risks
The xmcdconfig creates directories world-writeable allowing local users to fill the /usr and /var partition and hence cause a denial of service
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Summary


For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 2.6-17sarge1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 2.6-18.

We recommend that you upgrade your xmcd 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 at the end of this advisory:

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 3.0 alias woody

Size/MD5 checksum: 619 42038224877b80e57969e82e14a6ee5a
Size/MD5 checksum: 19169 3144b9f7dc78b1a0a668eff06ded3b08
Size/MD5 checksum: 553934 ce3208e21d8e37059e44ce9310d08f5f

Alpha architecture:

Size/MD5 c...

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