Debian: New yarssr packages fix arbitrary shell command

Duncan Gilmore discovered that yarssr, an RSS aggregator and reader, performs insufficient input sanitising, which could result in the execution of arbitrary shell commands if a malformed feed is read.

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Debian Security Advisory DSA-1477-1                  This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
https://www.debian.org/security/                       Moritz Muehlenhoff
January 27, 2008                      https://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package        : yarssr
Vulnerability  : missing input sanitising
Problem type   : remote
Debian-specific: no
CVE Id(s)      : CVE-2007-5837

Duncan Gilmore discovered that yarssr, an RSS aggregator and reader,
performs insufficient input sanitising, which could result in the
execution of arbitrary shell commands if a malformed feed is read.

For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in
version 0.2.2-1etch1.

Due to a technical limitation of the archive management scripts, the
fix for the old stable distribution (sarge) needs to be postponed
by a few days.

We recommend that you upgrade your yarssr packages.

Upgrade instructions
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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 4.0 (stable)
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Stable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc.

Source archives:

  https://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/y/yarssr/yarssr_0.2.2-1etch1.diff.gz
    Size/MD5 checksum:     6420 105059b6e1b31d82b77ae3bb2d788fa6
  https://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/y/yarssr/yarssr_0.2.2.orig.tar.gz
    Size/MD5 checksum:    21077 1825b214043c8d37fc8bad6935f0137a
  https://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/y/yarssr/yarssr_0.2.2-1etch1.dsc
    Size/MD5 checksum:      584 83e4a6cb616defe9d78f55ef06d6379c

Architecture independent packages:

  https://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/y/yarssr/yarssr_0.2.2-1etch1_all.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum:    23498 d8bd255215bdb7042260997fb76741cd


  These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on
  its next update.

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