Debian Security Advisory
DSA-294-1 gkrellm-newsticker -- missing quoting, incomplete parser
- Date Reported:
- 23 Apr 2003
- Affected Packages:
- gkrellm-newsticker
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ID 7414.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2003-0205, CVE-2003-0206. - More information:
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Brian Campbell discovered two security-related problems in gkrellm-newsticker, a plugin for the gkrellm system monitor program, which provides a news ticker from RDF feeds. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems:
- CAN-2003-0205
- It can launch a web browser of the user's choice when the ticker title is clicked by using the URI given by the feed. However, special shell characters are not properly escaped enabling a malicious feed to execute arbitrary shell commands on the clients machine.
- CAN-2003-0206
- It crashes the entire gkrellm system on feeds where link or title elements are not entirely on a single line. A malicious server could therefore craft a denial of service.
For the stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in version 0.3-3.1.
The old stable distribution (potato) is not affected since it doesn't contain gkrellm-newsticker packages.
For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems is not yet fixed.
We recommend that you upgrade your gkrellm-newsticker package.
- Fixed in:
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Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gkrellm-newsticker/gkrellm-newsticker_0.3-3.1.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gkrellm-newsticker/gkrellm-newsticker_0.3-3.1.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gkrellm-newsticker/gkrellm-newsticker_0.3.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gkrellm-newsticker/gkrellm-newsticker_0.3-3.1.diff.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gkrellm-newsticker/gkrellm-newsticker_0.3-3.1_alpha.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gkrellm-newsticker/gkrellm-newsticker_0.3-3.1_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gkrellm-newsticker/gkrellm-newsticker_0.3-3.1_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gkrellm-newsticker/gkrellm-newsticker_0.3-3.1_ia64.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gkrellm-newsticker/gkrellm-newsticker_0.3-3.1_hppa.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gkrellm-newsticker/gkrellm-newsticker_0.3-3.1_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gkrellm-newsticker/gkrellm-newsticker_0.3-3.1_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gkrellm-newsticker/gkrellm-newsticker_0.3-3.1_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gkrellm-newsticker/gkrellm-newsticker_0.3-3.1_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gkrellm-newsticker/gkrellm-newsticker_0.3-3.1_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gkrellm-newsticker/gkrellm-newsticker_0.3-3.1_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.