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Gentoo 201401-20 High: Cacti Code Execution And XSS Risk Advisory

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Cacti on the Gentoo platform has been discovered to contain critical vulnerabilities, permitting remote code execution and potential XSS attacks; immediate patching is advised.
Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Cacti, allowing attackers to execute arbitrary code or perform XSS attacks.

Summary

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Cacti. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

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Topics Covered

security advisory high severity code execution XSS Cacti network graphing

Resolution

All Cacti users should upgrade to the latest version: # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-analyzer/cacti-0.8.8b"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2010-1644 http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2010-1644 [ 2 ] CVE-2010-1645 http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2010-1645 [ 3 ] CVE-2010-2092 http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2010-2092 [ 4 ] CVE-2010-2543 http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2010-2543 [ 5 ] CVE-2010-2544 http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2010-2544 [ 6 ] CVE-2010-2545 http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2010-2545 [ 7 ] CVE-2013-1434 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2013-1434 [ 8 ] CVE-2013-1435 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2013-1435

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201401-20
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Concerns

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users' machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.

Severity: High
Title: Cacti: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date: January 21, 2014
Bugs: #324031, #480196
ID: 201401-20

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Topics Covered

security advisory high severity code execution XSS Cacti network graphing

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Cacti, allowing attackersto execute arbitrary code or perform XSS attacks.

Background

Cacti is a complete network graphing solution designed to harness the power of RRDTool's data storage and graphing functionality.

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Affected Packages

------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 net-analyzer/cacti < 0.8.8b >= 0.8.8b

Impact

===== A remote attacker could execute arbitrary SQL commands via specially crafted parameters, execute arbitrary shell code or inject malicious script code.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.