Debian Security Advisory
DSA-1420-1 zabbix -- programming error
- Date Reported:
- 05 Dec 2007
- Affected Packages:
- zabbix
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 452682.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2007-6210. - More information:
-
Bas van Schaik discovered that the agentd process of Zabbix, a network monitor system, may run user-supplied commands as group id root, not zabbix, which may lead to a privilege escalation.
zabbix is not included in the oldstable distribution (sarge).
For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 1:1.1.4-10etch1.
We recommend that you upgrade your zabbix packages.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (etch)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zabbix/zabbix_1.1.4-10etch1.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zabbix/zabbix_1.1.4-10etch1.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zabbix/zabbix_1.1.4.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zabbix/zabbix_1.1.4-10etch1.diff.gz
- Architecture-independent component:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zabbix/zabbix-frontend-php_1.1.4-10etch1_all.deb
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zabbix/zabbix-server-mysql_1.1.4-10etch1_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zabbix/zabbix-agent_1.1.4-10etch1_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zabbix/zabbix-server-pgsql_1.1.4-10etch1_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zabbix/zabbix-agent_1.1.4-10etch1_alpha.deb
- AMD64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zabbix/zabbix-agent_1.1.4-10etch1_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zabbix/zabbix-server-mysql_1.1.4-10etch1_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zabbix/zabbix-server-pgsql_1.1.4-10etch1_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zabbix/zabbix-server-mysql_1.1.4-10etch1_amd64.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zabbix/zabbix-agent_1.1.4-10etch1_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zabbix/zabbix-server-mysql_1.1.4-10etch1_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zabbix/zabbix-server-pgsql_1.1.4-10etch1_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zabbix/zabbix-server-mysql_1.1.4-10etch1_arm.deb
- HP Precision:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zabbix/zabbix-agent_1.1.4-10etch1_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zabbix/zabbix-server-mysql_1.1.4-10etch1_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zabbix/zabbix-server-pgsql_1.1.4-10etch1_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zabbix/zabbix-server-mysql_1.1.4-10etch1_hppa.deb
- Big-endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zabbix/zabbix-server-mysql_1.1.4-10etch1_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zabbix/zabbix-server-pgsql_1.1.4-10etch1_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zabbix/zabbix-agent_1.1.4-10etch1_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zabbix/zabbix-server-pgsql_1.1.4-10etch1_mips.deb
- Little-endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zabbix/zabbix-agent_1.1.4-10etch1_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zabbix/zabbix-server-pgsql_1.1.4-10etch1_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zabbix/zabbix-server-mysql_1.1.4-10etch1_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zabbix/zabbix-server-pgsql_1.1.4-10etch1_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zabbix/zabbix-server-pgsql_1.1.4-10etch1_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zabbix/zabbix-server-mysql_1.1.4-10etch1_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zabbix/zabbix-agent_1.1.4-10etch1_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zabbix/zabbix-server-mysql_1.1.4-10etch1_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zabbix/zabbix-server-mysql_1.1.4-10etch1_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zabbix/zabbix-agent_1.1.4-10etch1_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zabbix/zabbix-server-pgsql_1.1.4-10etch1_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zabbix/zabbix-agent_1.1.4-10etch1_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zabbix/zabbix-server-pgsql_1.1.4-10etch1_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zabbix/zabbix-agent_1.1.4-10etch1_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zabbix/zabbix-server-mysql_1.1.4-10etch1_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zabbix/zabbix-agent_1.1.4-10etch1_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.