CVE-2015-0859 Command injection in n/a

What is CVE-2015-0859?

CVE-2015-0859 is a high-severity command injection vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 3 Dec 2015. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The Debian build procedure for the smokeping package in wheezy before 2.6.8-2+deb7u1 and jessie before 2.6.9-1+deb8u1 does not properly configure the way Apache httpd passes arguments to smokeping_cgi, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted CGI arguments.

Weakness: CWE-17

Which versions are affected by CVE-2015-0859?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Debian Debian Linux.

How do I fix CVE-2015-0859?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Upgrade, and pass arguments to programs as a list instead of through a shell. More about Command injection.

Is CVE-2015-0859 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-0859 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2015-0859, DSA-3405-1, GHSA-cpf5-7x3j-9fcc, UBUNTU-CVE-2015-0859.