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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.