Executive Summary
| Summary | |
|---|---|
| Title | New gkrellm-newsticker packages fix DoS and arbitrary command execution |
| Informations | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Name | DSA-294 | First vendor Publication | 2003-04-23 |
| Vendor | Debian | Last vendor Modification | 2003-04-23 |
| Severity (Vendor) | N/A | Revision | 1 |
Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3
| Cvss vector : N/A | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Overall CVSS Score | NA | ||
| Base Score | NA | Environmental Score | NA |
| impact SubScore | NA | Temporal Score | NA |
| Exploitabality Sub Score | NA | ||
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2
| Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Cvss Base Score | 7.5 | Attack Range | Network |
| Cvss Impact Score | 6.4 | Attack Complexity | Low |
| Cvss Expoit Score | 10 | Authentication | None Required |
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Detail
| Brian Campbell discovered two security-related problems in gkrellm-newsticker, a plugin for the gkrellm system monitor program, which provides a news ticker from RDF feeds. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems: CAN-2003-0205 It can launch a web browser of the user's choice when the ticker title is clicked by using the URI given by the feed. However, special shell characters are not properly escaped enabling a malicious feed to execute arbitrary shell commands on the clients machine. CAN-2003-0206 It crashes the entire gkrellm system on feeds where link or title elements are not entirely on a single line. A malicious server could therefore craft a denial of service. For the stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in version 0.3-3.1 The old stable distribution (potato) is not affected since it doesn't contain gkrellm-newsticker packages. For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems is not yet fixed. We recommend that you upgrade your gkrellm-newsticker package. |
Original Source
| Url : http://www.debian.org/security/2003/dsa-294 |
CPE : Common Platform Enumeration
| Type | Description | Count |
|---|---|---|
| Application | 1 |
OpenVAS Exploits
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2008-01-17 | Name : Debian Security Advisory DSA 294-1 (gkrellm-newsticker) File : nvt/deb_294_1.nasl |
Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)
| Id | Description |
|---|---|
| 13489 | GKrellM Newsticker RDF Feed Multiple Line DoS |
| 13488 | GKrellM Newsticker Ticker Title Arbitrary Command Execution |
Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2004-09-29 | Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update. File : debian_DSA-294.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
Alert History
| Date | Informations |
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| 2014-02-17 11:32:35 |
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