Debian Security Advisory
DLA-1061-1 newsbeuter -- LTS security update
- Date Reported:
- 19 Aug 2017
- Affected Packages:
- newsbeuter
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2017-12904.
- More information:
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Jeriko One discovered that newsbeuter, a text-mode RSS feed reader, did not properly escape the title and description of a news article when bookmarking it. This allowed a remote attacker to run an arbitrary shell command on the client machine.
For Debian 7
Wheezy
, these problems have been fixed in version 2.5-2+deb7u2.We recommend that you upgrade your newsbeuter packages.
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