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1.8 KiB
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
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<glsa id="201803-04">
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<title>Newsbeuter: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code</title>
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<synopsis>A vulnerability in Newsbeuter may allow remote attackers to execute
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arbitrary shell commands.
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</synopsis>
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<product type="ebuild">newsbeuter</product>
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<announced>2018-03-11</announced>
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<revised count="1">2018-03-11</revised>
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<bug>631150</bug>
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<access>remote</access>
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<affected>
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<package name="net-news/newsbeuter" auto="yes" arch="*">
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<vulnerable range="le">2.9-r3</vulnerable>
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</package>
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</affected>
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<background>
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<p>Newsbeuter is a RSS/Atom feed reader for the text console.</p>
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</background>
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<description>
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<p>Newsbeuter does not properly escape shell meta-characters in an RSS item
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with a media enclosure in the podcast playback function of Podbeuter.
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</p>
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</description>
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<impact type="normal">
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<p>A remote attacker, by enticing a user to open a feed with a specially
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crafted media enclosure, could possibly execute arbitrary shell commands
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with the privileges of the user running the application.
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</p>
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</impact>
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<workaround>
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<p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
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</workaround>
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<resolution>
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<p>Gentoo has discontinued support for Newsbeuter and recommends that users
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unmerge the package:
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</p>
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<code>
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# emerge --unmerge "net-news/newsbeuter"
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</code>
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</resolution>
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<references>
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<uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-14500">CVE-2017-14500</uri>
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</references>
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<metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2018-02-05T14:58:55Z">chrisadr</metadata>
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<metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2018-03-11T16:29:05Z">chrisadr</metadata>
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</glsa>
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