GLSA 200712-02: Cacti: SQL injection
| Severity: | normal |
| Title: | Cacti: SQL injection |
| Date: | 12/05/2007 |
| Bugs: | |
| ID: | 200712-02 |
Synopsis
An SQL injection vulnerability has been discovered in Cacti.Background
Cacti is a complete web-based frontend to rrdtool.
Affected packages
| Package | Vulnerable | Unaffected | Architecture(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| net-analyzer/cacti | < 0.8.7a | >= 0.8.6j-r7 | All supported architectures |
Description
It has been reported that the "local_graph_id" variable used in the file graph.php is not properly sanitized before being processed in an SQL statement.
Impact
A remote attacker could send a specially crafted request to the vulnerable host, possibly resulting in the execution of arbitrary SQL code.
Workaround
There is no known workaround at this time.
Resolution
All Cacti users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-analyzer/cacti-0.8.6j-r7"
References
Availability
This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website:
Concerns?
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License
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