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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3405-1 smokeping -- security update

Date Reported:

25 Nov 2015

Affected Packages:

smokeping

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2015-0859.

More information:

Tero Marttila discovered that the Debian packaging for smokeping installed it in such a way that the CGI implementation of Apache httpd (mod_cgi) passed additional arguments to the smokeping_cgi program, potentially leading to arbitrary code execution in response to crafted HTTP requests.

For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 2.6.8-2+deb7u1.

For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 2.6.9-1+deb8u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your smokeping packages.