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<glsa id="200809-12">
  <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>2008-09-22</announced>
  <revised count="01">2008-09-22</revised>
  <bug>236506</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="net-news/newsbeuter" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">1.2</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">1.2</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    Newsbeuter is a RSS/Atom feed reader for the text console.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    J.H.M. Dassen reported that the open-in-browser command does not
    properly escape shell metacharacters in the URL before passing it to
    system().
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>
    A remote attacker could entice a user to open a feed with specially
    crafted URLs, possibly resulting in the remote execution of 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-1.2"</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-3907">CVE-2008-3907</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2008-09-11T17:38:14Z">
    keytoaster
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2008-09-18T21:45:41Z">
    p-y
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2008-09-18T21:45:49Z">
    p-y
  </metadata>
</glsa>
