Debian Security Advisory
DSA-1520-1 smarty -- insufficient input sanitising
- Date Reported:
- 16 Mar 2008
- Affected Packages:
- smarty
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 469492.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2008-1066. - More information:
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It was discovered that the regex module in Smarty, a PHP templating engine, allows attackers to call arbitrary PHP functions via templates using the regex_replace plugin by a specially crafted search string.
For the old stable distribution (sarge), this problem has been fixed in version 2.6.9-1sarge1.
For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 2.6.14-1etch1.
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 2.6.18-1.1.
We recommend that you upgrade your smarty package.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/smarty/smarty_2.6.9-1sarge1.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/smarty/smarty_2.6.9.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/smarty/smarty_2.6.9-1sarge1.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/smarty/smarty_2.6.9.orig.tar.gz
- Architecture-independent component:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/smarty/smarty_2.6.9-1sarge1_all.deb
Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (etch)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/smarty/smarty_2.6.14-1etch1.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/smarty/smarty_2.6.14.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/smarty/smarty_2.6.14-1etch1.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/smarty/smarty_2.6.14.orig.tar.gz
- Architecture-independent component:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/smarty/smarty_2.6.14-1etch1_all.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.
