Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1418-1 cacti -- missing input sanitising

Date Reported:

02 Dec 2007

Affected Packages:

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 452085.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2007-6035.

More information:

It was discovered that Cacti, a tool to monitor systems and networks, performs insufficient input sanitising, which allows SQL injection.

For the oldstable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 0.8.6c-7sarge5.

For the stable distribution (etch) this problem has been fixed in version 0.8.6i-3.2.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 0.8.7a-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your cacti package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (oldstable)

Source:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cacti/cacti_0.8.6c.orig.tar.gz; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cacti/cacti_0.8.6c-7sarge5.diff.gz; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cacti/cacti_0.8.6c-7sarge5.dsc
Architecture-independent component:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cacti/cacti_0.8.6c-7sarge5_all.deb

Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (stable)

Source:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cacti/cacti_0.8.6i.orig.tar.gz; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cacti/cacti_0.8.6i-3.2.dsc; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cacti/cacti_0.8.6i-3.2.diff.gz
Architecture-independent component:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cacti/cacti_0.8.6i-3.2_all.deb

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