DSA 1520-1: New smarty packages fix arbitrary code execution

Posted by Bob on: 03/16/2008 12:55 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-1520-1 security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/ Thijs Kinkhorst
March 16, 2008 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package : smarty
Vulnerability : insufficient input sanitising
Problem type : remote
Debian-specific: no
CVE Id(s) : CVE-2008-1066
Debian Bug : 469492

It was discovered that the regex module in Smarty, a PHP templating engine,
allows attackers to call arbitrary PHP functions via templates using the
regex_replace plugin by a specially crafted search string.

For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version
2.6.14-1etch1.

For the old stable distribution (sarge), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.6.9-1sarge1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version
2.6.18-1.1.

We recommend that you upgrade your smarty package.

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 GNU/Linux 3.1 alias sarge
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Source archives:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/smarty/smarty_2.6.9-1sarge1.dsc
Size/MD5 checksum: 870 3c1955d0151a53532dab661fb9a9b7b3
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/smarty/smarty_2.6.9.orig.tar.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 141694 4ee0048de6a9b35f1b11b458493327f2
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/smarty/smarty_2.6.9-1sarge1.diff.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 3502 b1835fb9b611eb5ef3f26f23c21fbdbb

Architecture independent packages:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/smarty/smarty_2.6.9-1sarge1_all.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 177048 39408bb8ec42a25956990f2e81bd2d7e

Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 alias etch
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Source archives:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/smarty/smarty_2.6.14-1etch1.dsc
Size/MD5 checksum: 950 fa71b68819fe520b5616eec683276fdf
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/smarty/smarty_2.6.14.orig.tar.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 144986 9186796ddbc29191306338dea9d632a0
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/smarty/smarty_2.6.14-1etch1.diff.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 3814 8544db24358f72e091898f45c9fbc961

Architecture independent packages:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/smarty/smarty_2.6.14-1etch1_all.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 184654 d2c9b4a558a052ab1c96bbdadfedafa5

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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