Debian: New yarssr packages fix arbitrary shell command
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.
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 - -------------------- 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) - ------------------- 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. - --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For apt-get: deb https://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main For dpkg-ftp: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security dists/stable/updates/main Mailing list: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.