GLSA 201509-03: Cacti: Multiple vulnerabilities

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Severity:	normal
Title:	Cacti: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date:	09/24/2015
Bugs:	#506356, #515108, #554758
ID:	201509-03

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Cacti, the worst of which could lead to arbitrary code execution.

Background

Cacti is a complete frontend to rrdtool

Affected packages

Package	Vulnerable	Unaffected	Architecture(s)
net-analyzer/cacti	< 0.8.8d	>= 0.8.8d	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 possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the process, or cause a Denial of Service condition.

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-0.8.8d"

References

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201509-03.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.