GLSA 201401-20: Cacti: Multiple vulnerabilities

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Severity:	high
Title:	Cacti: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date:	01/21/2014
Bugs:	#324031, #480196
ID:	201401-20

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Cacti, allowing attackers to execute arbitrary code or perform XSS attacks.

Background

Cacti is a complete network graphing solution designed to harness the power of RRDTool’s data storage and graphing functionality.

Affected packages

Package	Vulnerable	Unaffected	Architecture(s)
net-analyzer/cacti	< 0.8.8b	>= 0.8.8b	All supported architectures

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Cacti. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

Impact

A remote attacker could execute arbitrary SQL commands via specially crafted parameters, execute arbitrary shell code or inject malicious script 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-0.8.8b"

References

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201401-20.xml

Concerns?

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.