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Gentoo: GLSA-200809-12 Normal: Newsbeuter Remote Code Execution

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Calendar Grey September 22, 2008
Scroller Gentoo
Debian Security Advisory DSA-1234-1 addresses a vulnerability in Apache server's handling of requests that could potentially enable unauthorized access.
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 ======= Insufficient input validation in newsbeuter may allow remote attackersto execute arbitrary shell commands.
Background ========= Newsbeuter is a RSS/Atom feed reader for the text console.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 net-news/newsbeuter < 1.2 >= 1.2
========== 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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