A cacti, cacti-spine security update has been released for openSUSE Leap 12 and SUSE Linux Enterprise 12.

openSUSE-SU-2021:0755-1: important: Security update for cacti, cacti-spine

openSUSE Security Update: Security update for cacti, cacti-spine
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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2021:0755-1
Rating: important
References: #1180804
Cross-References: CVE-2020-35701
CVSS scores:
CVE-2020-35701 (NVD) : 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected Products:
openSUSE Leap 15.2
SUSE Package Hub for SUSE Linux Enterprise 12
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An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

Description:

This update for cacti, cacti-spine fixes the following issues:

cacti-spine was updated to 1.2.17:

* Avoid triggering DDos detection in firewalls on large systems
* Use mysql reconnect option properly
* Fix possible creashes in various operations
* Fix remote data collectors pushing too much data to main when performing
diagnostics
* Make spine more responsive when remote connection is down
* Fix various MySQL issues
* Make spine immune to DST changes

cacti-spine 1.2.16:

* Some developer debug log messages falsely labeled as WARNINGS
* Remove the need of the dos2unix program
* Fix Spine experiencing MySQL socket error 2002 under load
* Under heavy load MySQL/MariaDB return 2006 and 2013 errors on query
* Add backtrace output to stderr for signals
* Add Data Source turnaround time to debug output

cacti-spine 1.2.15:

* Special characters may not always be ignored properly

cacti was updated to 1.2.17:

* Fix incorrect handling of fields led to potential XSS issues
* CVE-2020-35701: Fix SQL Injection vulnerability (boo#1180804)
* Fix various XSS issues with HTML Forms handling
* Fix handling of Daylight Saving Time changes
* Multiple fixes and extensions to plugins
* Fix multiple display, export, and input validation issues
* SNMPv3 Password field was not correctly limited
* Improved regular expression handling for searcu
* Improved support for RRDproxy
* Improved behavior on large systems
* MariaDB/MysQL: Support persistent connections and improve multiple
operations and options
* Add Theme 'Midwinter'
* Modify automation to test for data before creating graphs
* Add hooks for plugins to show customize graph source and customize
template url
* Allow CSRF security key to be refreshed at command line
* Allow remote pollers statistics to be cleared
* Allow user to be automatically logged out after admin defined period
* When replicating, ensure Cacti can detect and verify replica servers

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods
like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Leap 15.2:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2021-755=1

- SUSE Package Hub for SUSE Linux Enterprise 12:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2021-755=1


Package List:

- openSUSE Leap 15.2 (x86_64):

cacti-spine-1.2.17-lp152.2.9.1
cacti-spine-debuginfo-1.2.17-lp152.2.9.1
cacti-spine-debugsource-1.2.17-lp152.2.9.1

- openSUSE Leap 15.2 (noarch):

cacti-1.2.17-lp152.2.12.1

- SUSE Package Hub for SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64):

cacti-spine-1.2.17-14.1
cacti-spine-debuginfo-1.2.17-14.1
cacti-spine-debugsource-1.2.17-14.1

- SUSE Package Hub for SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 (noarch):

cacti-1.2.17-20.1

References:

  https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-35701.html
  https://bugzilla.suse.com/1180804