Gentoo: GLSA-200809-12 Normal: Newsbeuter Remote Code Execution
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September 22, 2008
Insufficient input validation in newsbeuter may allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary shell commands.
Summary
Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200809-12
https://security.gentoo.org/
Severity: Normal
Title: Newsbeuter: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code
Date: September 22, 2008
Bugs: #236506
ID: 200809-12
Synopsis
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Insufficient input validation in newsbeuter may allow remote attackersto execute arbitrary shell commands.
Background
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Newsbeuter is a RSS/Atom feed reader for the text console.
Affected packages
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 net-news/newsbeuter < 1.2 >= 1.2
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J.H.M. Dassen reported that the open-in-browser command does not
properly escape shell metacharacters in the URL before passing it to
syst...
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