GLSA 200803-18: Cacti: Multiple vulnerabilities

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Severity:	normal
Title:	Cacti: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date:	03/10/2008
Bugs:	#209918
ID:	200803-18

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in Cacti.

Background

Cacti is a web-based network graphing and reporting tool.

Affected packages

Package	Vulnerable	Unaffected	Architecture(s)
net-analyzer/cacti	< 0.8.7b	>= 0.8.7b	All supported architectures

Description

The following inputs are not properly sanitized before being processed:

"view_type" parameter in the file graph.php, "filter" parameter in the file graph_view.php, "action" and "login_username" parameters in the file index.php (CVE-2008-0783).
"local_graph_id" parameter in the file graph.php (CVE-2008-0784).
"graph_list" parameter in the file graph_view.php, "leaf_id" and "id" parameters in the file tree.php, "local_graph_id" in the file graph_xport.php (CVE-2008-0785).

Furthermore, CRLF injection attack are possible via unspecified vectors (CVE-2008-0786).

Impact

A remote attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities, leading to path disclosure, Cross-Site Scripting attacks, SQL injection, and HTTP response splitting.

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-0.8.7b"

References

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200803-18.xml

Concerns?

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