Cacti: Multiple vulnerabilities — GLSA 201509-03

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

Affected packages

net-analyzer/cacti on all architectures
Affected versions < 0.8.8d
Unaffected versions >= 0.8.8d

Background

Cacti is a complete frontend to rrdtool

Description

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

Impact

A remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the process, or cause a Denial of Service condition.

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-0.8.8d"
 

References

Release date
September 24, 2015

Latest revision
September 24, 2015: 1

Severity
normal

Exploitable
remote

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