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Debian Security Advisory DSA-2039-1                  security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/                          Thijs Kinkhorst
April 23, 2010                        http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package        : cacti
Vulnerability  : missing input sanitising
Problem type   : remote
Debian-specific: no
Debian Bug     : 578909

It was discovered that Cacti, a frontend to rrdtool for monitoring
systems and services missed input sanitising, making an SQL injection
attack possible.

For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in
version 0.8.7b-2.1+lenny2.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem will be fixed soon.

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 5.0 alias lenny
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Source archives:

      Size/MD5 checksum:    37338 16b43e80a447a185f5372372836104ed
      Size/MD5 checksum:  1972444 aa8a740a6ab88e3634b546c3e1bc502f
      Size/MD5 checksum:     1408 468d418ebedfd326081cbb159c159b55

Architecture independent packages:

      Size/MD5 checksum:  1826020 b88356b2559091ae8444b93b5234e881


  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:  dists/stable/updates/main
Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
Package info: `apt-cache show ' and http://packages.debian.org/

Debian: DSA-2039-1: New cacti packages fix missing input sanitising

April 23, 2010
It was discovered that Cacti, a frontend to rrdtool for monitoring systems and services missed input sanitising, making an SQL injection attack possible

Summary

For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in
version 0.8.7b-2.1+lenny2.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem will be fixed soon.

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 5.0 alias lenny

Source archives:

Size/MD5 checksum: 37338 16b43e80a447a185f5372372836104ed
Size/MD5 checksum: 1972444 aa8a740a6ab88e3634b546c3e1bc502f
Size/MD5 checksum: 1408 468d418ebedfd326081cbb159c159b55

Architecture independent packages:

Size/MD5 checksum: 1826020 b88356b2559091ae8444b93b5234e881


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: dists/stable/updates/main
Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
Package info: `apt-cache show ' and http://packages.debian.org/

Severity
It was discovered that Cacti, a frontend to rrdtool for monitoring
systems and services missed input sanitising, making an SQL injection
attack possible.

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