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Debian: DSA-1477-1 Critical: Yarssr Input Sanitizing Issue

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Calendar Grey January 27, 2008
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Debian Security Advisory DSA-1477-1 http://www.debian.org/security/ Moritz Muehlenhoff January 27, 2
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 ...
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Summary


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:

Size/MD5 checksum: 6420 105059b6e1b31d82b77ae3bb2d788fa6
Size/MD5 checksum: 21077 1825b214043c8d37fc8bad6935f0137a
Size/MD5 checksum: 5...

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