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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3947-1 newsbeuter -- security update

Date Reported:

18 Aug 2017

Affected Packages:

newsbeuter

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2017-12904.

More information:

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 the oldstable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 2.8-2+deb8u1.

For the stable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in version 2.9-5+deb9u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your newsbeuter packages.