DSA-1250-1 cacti -- missing input sanitising

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1250-1 cacti -- missing input sanitising

Date Reported:

17 Jan 2007

Affected Packages:

cacti

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 404818.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2006-6799.

More information:

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.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)

Source:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cacti/cacti_0.8.6c-7sarge4.dsc

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cacti/cacti_0.8.6c-7sarge4.diff.gz

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cacti/cacti_0.8.6c.orig.tar.gz

Architecture-independent component:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cacti/cacti_0.8.6c-7sarge4_all.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.