glsa-201803-04.xml


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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201803-04">
  <title>Newsbeuter: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code</title>
  <synopsis>A vulnerability in Newsbeuter may allow remote attackers to execute
    arbitrary shell commands.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">newsbeuter</product>
  <announced>2018-03-11</announced>
  <revised count="1">2018-03-11</revised>
  <bug>631150</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="net-news/newsbeuter" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <vulnerable range="le">2.9-r3</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>Newsbeuter is a RSS/Atom feed reader for the text console.</p>
    
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>Newsbeuter does not properly escape shell meta-characters in an RSS item
      with a media enclosure in the podcast playback function of Podbeuter.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>A remote attacker, by enticing a user to open a feed with a specially
      crafted media enclosure, could possibly execute arbitrary shell commands
      with the privileges of the user running the application.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>Gentoo has discontinued support for Newsbeuter and recommends that users
      unmerge the package:
    </p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --unmerge "net-news/newsbeuter"
    </code>
    
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-14500">CVE-2017-14500</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2018-02-05T14:58:55Z">chrisadr</metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2018-03-11T16:29:05Z">chrisadr</metadata>
</glsa>