Ubuntu Security Notices
USN-3215-1

USN-3215-1: Munin vulnerability

Publication date

2 March 2017

Overview

Munin could be made to overwrite files.

Releases

14.04 LTS

Packages

munin - Network-wide graphing framework

Details

It was discovered that Munin incorrectly handled CGI graphs. A remote
attacker could use this issue to overwrite arbitrary files as the www-data
user.

Update instructions

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

Learn more about how to get the fixes.

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu Release	Package Version
14.04 trusty	munin – 2.0.19-3ubuntu0.2

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References

CVE-2017-6188

CVE-2017-6188