GLSA 202003-40: Cacti: Multiple vulnerabilities

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Severity:	normal
Title:	Cacti: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date:	03/19/2020
Bugs:	#702312, #708938
ID:	202003-40

Synopsis

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

Background

Cacti is a complete frontend to rrdtool.

Affected packages

Package	Vulnerable	Unaffected	Architecture(s)
net-analyzer/cacti	< 1.2.9	>= 1.2.9	All supported architectures

Description

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

Impact

Remote attackers could execute arbitrary code or bypass intended access restrictions.

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-1.2.9"

References

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-202003-40.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.