Debian DSA-1954-1 : cacti - insufficient input sanitising

high Nessus Plugin ID 44819

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Synopsis

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

Description

Several vulnerabilities have been found in cacti, a frontend to rrdtool for monitoring systems and services. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems :

- CVE-2007-3112, CVE-2007-3113 It was discovered that cacti is prone to a denial of service via the graph_height, graph_width, graph_start and graph_end parameters. This issue only affects the oldstable (etch) version of cacti.

- CVE-2009-4032 It was discovered that cacti is prone to several cross-site scripting attacks via different vectors.

- CVE-2009-4112 It has been discovered that cacti allows authenticated administrator users to gain access to the host system by executing arbitrary commands via the 'Data Input Method' for the 'Linux - Get Memory Usage' setting.

There is no fix for this issue at this stage. Upstream will implement a whitelist policy to only allow certain 'safe' commands.
For the moment, we recommend that such access is only given to trusted users and that the options 'Data Input' and 'User Administration' are otherwise deactivated.

Solution

Upgrade the cacti packages.

For the oldstable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in version 0.8.6i-3.6.

For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 0.8.7b-2.1+lenny1.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 44819

File Name: debian_DSA-1954.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 2/24/2010

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.8

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:cacti, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:4.0, 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: 12/16/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-3112, CVE-2007-3113, CVE-2009-4032, CVE-2010-2543

BID: 37109

CWE: 79

DSA: 1954

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