Security update for cacti, cacti-spine (important)

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