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Posted on 18 August 2017
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Debian Security Advisory DSA-3947-1 security@debian.org
https://www.debian.org/security/ Sebastien Delafond
August 18, 2017 https://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package : newsbeuter
CVE ID : CVE-2017-12904
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.
Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://www.debian.org/security/
Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
