gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-201803-04.xml

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