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Gentoo: GLSA-200503-35 High: Smarty Template Security Risk

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Calendar Grey April 10, 2005
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Elevate Smarty to version 2.6.9 in order to address critical template vulnerabilities highlighted in the Gentoo advisory.
New ways of bypassing Smarty's "Template security" were found and fixed in Smarty

Summary

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory [UPDATE] GLSA 200503-35:02 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: High Title: Smarty: Template vulnerability Date: March 30, 2005 Updated: April 09, 2005 Bugs: #86488 ID: 200503-35:02

Update ===== New ways of bypassing Smarty's "Template security" were found and fixed in Smarty. Users making use of that feature are encouraged to upgrade to version 2.6.9.
The updated sections appear below.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 dev-php/smarty < 2.6.9 >= 2.6.9
========== A vulnerability has been discovered within the regex_replace modifier of the Smarty templates when allowing access to untrusted users. Furthermore, ...

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