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Debian DSA-2039-1 : cacti - missing input sanitising

high Nessus Plugin ID 45612

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

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

Solution

Upgrade the cacti package.

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

See Also

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=578909

https://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2039

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 45612

File Name: debian_DSA-2039.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/26/2010

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:cacti, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:5.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/23/2010

Reference Information

BID: 39653

DSA: 2039