DSA 1477-1: New yarssr packages fix arbitrary shell command execution

Posted by Bob on: 01/27/2008 07:50 PM [ Print | 0 comment(s) ]

The Debian Security Team published a new security update for Debian GNU/Linux. Here the announcement:

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Debian Security Advisory DSA-1477-1 security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/ Moritz Muehlenhoff
January 27, 2008 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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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
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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)
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Stable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc.

Source archives:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/y/yarssr/yarssr_0.2.2-1etch1.diff.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 6420 105059b6e1b31d82b77ae3bb2d788fa6
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/y/yarssr/yarssr_0.2.2.orig.tar.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 21077 1825b214043c8d37fc8bad6935f0137a
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/y/yarssr/yarssr_0.2.2-1etch1.dsc
Size/MD5 checksum: 584 83e4a6cb616defe9d78f55ef06d6379c

Architecture independent packages:

http://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.

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For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main
For dpkg-ftp: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security dists/stable/updates/main
Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
Package info: `apt-cache show lt;pkggt;' and http://packages.debian.org/lt;pkggt;
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