Debian Security Advisory
DSA-1251-1 netrick -- insufficient escaping
- Date Reported:
- 21 Jan 2007
- Affected Packages:
- netrik
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 404233.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2006-6678. - More information:
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It has been discovered that netrik, a text mode WWW browser with vi like keybindings, doesn't properly sanitize temporary filenames when editing textareas which could allow attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters.
For the stable distribution (sarge), this problem has been fixed in version 1.15.4-1sarge1.
For the upcoming stable distribution (etch) this problem has been fixed in version 1.15.3-1.1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 1.15.3-1.1.
We recommend that you upgrade your netrik package.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netrik/netrik_1.15.3-1sarge1.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netrik/netrik_1.15.3-1sarge1.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netrik/netrik_1.15.3.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netrik/netrik_1.15.3-1sarge1.diff.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netrik/netrik_1.15.3-1sarge1_alpha.deb
- AMD64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netrik/netrik_1.15.3-1sarge1_amd64.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netrik/netrik_1.15.3-1sarge1_arm.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netrik/netrik_1.15.3-1sarge1_hppa.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netrik/netrik_1.15.3-1sarge1_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netrik/netrik_1.15.3-1sarge1_ia64.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netrik/netrik_1.15.3-1sarge1_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netrik/netrik_1.15.3-1sarge1_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netrik/netrik_1.15.3-1sarge1_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netrik/netrik_1.15.3-1sarge1_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netrik/netrik_1.15.3-1sarge1_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netrik/netrik_1.15.3-1sarge1_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.