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Debian Security Advisory DSA 3977-1 (newsbeuter - security update)
Information
Severity
Severity
Family
Family
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
Solution Type
Solution Type
Created
Created
Modified
Modified
Summary
It was discovered that podbeuter, the podcast fetcher in newsbeuter, a text-mode RSS feed reader, did not properly escape the name of the media enclosure (the podcast file), allowing a remote attacker to run an arbitrary shell command on the client machine. This is only exploitable if the file is also played in podbeuter.
Affected Software
Affected Software
newsbeuter on Debian Linux
Detection Method
Detection Method
This check tests the installed software version using the apt package manager.
Solution
Solution
For the oldstable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 2.8-2+deb8u2. For the stable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in version 2.9-5+deb9u2. For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 2.9-7. We recommend that you upgrade your newsbeuter packages.