[SECURITY] [DSA 1250-1] New cacti packages fix arbitrary code execution

Debian Security Advisory DSA 1250-1 [email protected]
http://www.debian.org/security/ Moritz Muehlenhoff
January 17th, 2007 http://www.debian.org/security/faq

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

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

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.

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: [email protected]
Package info: `apt-cache show <pkg>' and http://packages.debian.org/&lt;pkg&gt;