glsa-201801-18.xml


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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201801-18">
  <title>Newsbeuter: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code</title>
  <synopsis>Insufficient input validation in Newsbeuter may allow remote
    attackers to execute arbitrary shell commands.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">newsbeuter</product>
  <announced>2018-01-17</announced>
  <revised count="1">2018-01-17</revised>
  <bug>628796</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="net-news/newsbeuter" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">2.9-r3</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">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 the title
      and description of RSS feeds when bookmarking.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>A remote attacker, by enticing a user to open a feed with specially
      crafted URLs, 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>All Newsbeuter users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=net-news/newsbeuter-2.9-r3"
    </code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-12904">CVE-2017-12904</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2017-09-12T02:38:59Z">chrisadr</metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2018-01-17T13:45:37Z">b-man</metadata>
</glsa>