Gentoo: GLSA-201607-05 Normal: Cacti Remote Code Execution Advisory
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July 16, 2016
Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Cacti, the worst of which could lead to the remote execution of arbitrary code.
Summary
Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Cacti. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.
Resolution
All Cacti users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-analyzer/cacti-0.8.8h"
References
[ 1 ] CVE-2014-5261 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-5261 [ 2 ] CVE-2014-5262 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-5262 [ 3 ] CVE-2015-8369 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2015-8369 [ 4 ] CVE-2015-8377 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2015-8377 [ 5 ] CVE-2015-8604 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2015-8604 [ 6 ] CVE-2016-2313 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-2313 [ 7 ] CVE-2016-3172 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-3172 [ 8 ] CVE-2016-3659 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-3659
Availability
This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at
the Gentoo Security Website:
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201607-05
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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.
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Severity: Normal
Title: Cacti: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date: July 16, 2016
Bugs: #519900, #568400, #570984, #574412, #582996
ID: 201607-05
Background
Cacti is a complete frontend to rrdtool.
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Affected Packages
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 net-analyzer/cacti < 0.8.8h >= 0.8.8h
Impact
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A remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with the
privileges of the process, or remote authenticated users could bypass
intended access restrictions.
Workaround
There is no known workaround at this time.
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