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.