Debian DSA-3423-1 : cacti - security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 87430

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Synopsis

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

Description

Several SQL injection vulnerabilities have been discovered in Cacti, an RRDTool frontend written in PHP. Specially crafted input can be used by an attacker in the rra_id value of the graph.php script to execute arbitrary SQL commands on the database.

Solution

Upgrade the cacti packages.

For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 0.8.8a+dfsg-5+deb7u7.

For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 0.8.8b+dfsg-8+deb8u3.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 87430

File Name: debian_DSA-3423.nasl

Version: 2.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 12/17/2015

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:cacti, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/16/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-8369

DSA: 3423

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