Debian: DSA-1520-1 Critical: Smarty Input Sanitization Issue
debian
March 16, 2008
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 s...
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Summary
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
Size/MD5 checksum: 870 3c1955d0151a53532dab661fb9a9b7b3
Size/MD5 checksum: 141694 4ee0048de6a9b35f1b11b458493327f2
Size/MD5 checksum: 3502 b1835fb9b611eb5ef3f26f23c21fbdbb
Architecture independent packages:
Size/MD5 checksum: 17...
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