ID: 00039
Ref: 36/2007
Date: 18 January 2007:13:45:10
Version: 1
Title: Debian Security Advisory: DSA 1250-1 - New cacti packages fix arbitrary code execution
Abstract: It was discovered that cacti, a frontend to rrdtool, performs insufficient validation of data passed to the "cmd" script, which allows SQL injection and the execution of arbitrary shell commands.
Vendors affected: Debian
Operating systems affected: Debian
Applications affected: Debian
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Debian Security Advisory: DSA 1250-1 - New cacti packages fix arbitrary code execution
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It was discovered that cacti, a frontend to rrdtool, performs insufficient validation of data passed to the "cmd" script, which allows SQL injection and the execution of arbitrary shell commands.
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Debian Security Advisory DSA 1250-1 security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/ Moritz Muehlenhoff
January 17th, 2007 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package : cacti
Vulnerability : missing input sanitising
Problem-Type : remote
Debian-specific: no
CVE ID : CVE-2006-6799
Debian Bug : 404818
It was discovered that cacti, a frontend to rrdtool, performs insufficient validation of data passed to the "cmd" script, which allows SQL injection and the execution of arbitrary shell commands.
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 0.8.6c-7sarge4.
For the upcoming stable distribution (etch) this problem has been fixed in version 0.8.6i-3.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 0.8.6i-3.
We recommend that you upgrade your cacti package.
Upgrade Instructions
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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 3.1 alias sarge
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Source archives:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cacti/cacti_0.8.6c-7sarge4.dsc
Size/MD5 checksum: 595 afdce1f2bdbfc1aebfc501000ccb2bac
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cacti/cacti_0.8.6c-7sarge4.diff.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 55933 4efcecdf5f5e90d65b0e00e6d762315c
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cacti/cacti_0.8.6c.orig.tar.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 1046586 b4130300f671e773ebea3b8f715912c1
Architecture independent components:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cacti/cacti_0.8.6c-7sarge4_all.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 1059312 9bda882e046d818faa056d5e7dfaff71
These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on
its next update.
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For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main For dpkg-ftp: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security dists/stable/updates/main Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
Package info: `apt-cache show
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