Debian DLA-374-3 : cacti regression update

high Nessus Plugin ID 87606

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

It was discovered that there was a regression in the patch intended to fix CVE-2015-8369 in the recent upload of cacti 0.8.7g-1+squeeze9+deb6u12.

For Debian 6 Squeeze, this issue has been fixed in cacti version 0.8.7g-1+squeeze9+deb6u13.

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Upgrade the affected cacti package.

See Also

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2016/01/msg00002.html

https://packages.debian.org/source/squeeze-lts/cacti

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 87606

File Name: debian_DLA-374.nasl

Version: 2.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/29/2015

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, 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:6.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:cacti

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/4/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-8369