Fedora 8 : cacti-0.8.7b-1.fc8 (2008-1699)

high Nessus Plugin ID 31104

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Fixes: * XSS vulnerabilities * Path disclosure vulnerabilities * SQL injection vulnerabilities * HTTP response splitting vulnerabilities bug#0000855: Unnecessary (and faulty) DEF generation for CF:AVERAGE bug#0001083: Small visual fix for Cacti in 'View Cacti Log File' bug#0001089: Graph xport modification to increase default rows output bug#0001091: Poller incorrectly identifies unique hosts bug#0001093:
CLI Scripts bring MySQL down on large installations bug#0001094:
Filtering broken on Data Sources page bug#0001103: Fix looping poller recache events bug#0001107: ss_fping.php 100% 'Pkt Loss' does not work properly bug#0001114: Graphs with no template and/or no host cause filtering errors on Graph Management page bug#0001115: View Poller Cache does not show Data Sources that have no host bug#0001118: Graph Generation fails if e.g. ifDescr contains some blanks bug#0001132:
TCP/UDP ping port ignored bug#0001133: Downed Device Detection: None leads to database errors bug#0001134: update_host_status handles ping_availability incorrectly bug#0001143: 'U' not allowed as min/max RRD value bug#0001158: Deleted user causes error on user log viewer bug#0001161: Re-assign duplicate radio button IDs bug#0001164: Add HTML title attributes for certain pages bug#0001168:
ALL_DATA_SOURCES_NODUPS includes DUPs? SIMILAR_DATA_SOURCES_DUPS is available again bug: Cacti does not guarentee RRA consolidation functions exist in RRA's bug: Alert on changing logarithmic scaling removed bug: add_hosts.php did not accept privacy protocol security:
Fix several security vulnerabilities feature: show basic RRDtool graph options on Graph Template edit feature: Add additional logging to Graph Xport feature: Add rows dropdown to devices, graphs and data sources feature: Add device_id and event count to devices feature: Add ids to devices, graphs and data sources pages feature: Add database repair utility

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected cacti package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=432758

http://www.nessus.org/u?3090b9fb

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 31104

File Name: fedora_2008-1699.nasl

Version: 1.17

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/18/2008

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.3

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:cacti, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:8

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/15/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-0783, CVE-2008-0784, CVE-2008-0785, CVE-2008-0786

BID: 27749

CWE: 200, 79, 89, 94

FEDORA: 2008-1699