Debian: New smarty packages fix arbitrary code execution
Summary
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------Debian Security Advisory DSA-1520-1 security@debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/ Thijs Kinkhorst March 16, 2008 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - ------------------------------------------------------------------------Package : smarty Vulnerability : insufficient input sanitising Problem type : remote Debian-specific: no CVE Id(s) : CVE-2008-1066 Debian Bug : 469492 It was discovered that the regex module in Smarty, a PHP templating engine, allows attackers to call arbitrary PHP functions via templates using the regex_replace plugin by a specially crafted search string. For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 2.6.14-1etch1. For the old stable distribution (sarge), this problem has been fixed in version 2.6.9-1sarge1. For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 2.6.18-1.1. We recommend that you upgrade your smarty package. Upgrade instructions - --------------------wget url will fetch the file for you dpkg -i file.deb will install the referenced file. If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for sources.list as given below: apt-get update will update the internal database apt-get upgrade will install corrected packages You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the footer to the proper configuration. Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 alias sarge - --------------------------------Source archives: Size/MD5 checksum: 870 3c1955d0151a53532dab661fb9a9b7b3 Size/MD5 checksum: 141694 4ee0048de6a9b35f1b11b458493327f2 Size/MD5 checksum: 3502 b1835fb9b611eb5ef3f26f23c21fbdbb Architecture independent packages: Size/MD5 checksum: 177048 39408bb8ec42a25956990f2e81bd2d7e Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 alias etch - -------------------------------Source archives: Size/MD5 checksum: 950 fa71b68819fe520b5616eec683276fdf Size/MD5 checksum: 144986 9186796ddbc29191306338dea9d632a0 Size/MD5 checksum: 3814 8544db24358f72e091898f45c9fbc961 Architecture independent packages: Size/MD5 checksum: 184654 d2c9b4a558a052ab1c96bbdadfedafa5 These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on its next update. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main For dpkg-ftp: dists/stable/updates/main Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org