Executive Summary



This Alert is flagged as TOP 25 Common Weakness Enumeration from CWE/SANS. For more information, you can read this.
Summary
Title Newsbeuter: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code
Informations
Name GLSA-201803-04 First vendor Publication 2018-03-11
Vendor Gentoo Last vendor Modification 2018-03-11
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

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:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 6.8 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 8.6 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Synopsis

A vulnerability in Newsbeuter may allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary shell commands.

Background

Newsbeuter is a RSS/Atom feed reader for the text console.

Description

Newsbeuter does not properly escape shell meta-characters in an RSS item with a media enclosure in the podcast playback function of Podbeuter.

Impact

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.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

Gentoo has discontinued support for Newsbeuter and recommends that users unmerge the package:
# emerge --unmerge "net-news/newsbeuter"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2017-14500 : https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-14500

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website:

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201803-04

Original Source

Url : http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201803-04.xml

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-78 Improper Sanitization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection') (CWE/SANS Top 25)

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 24

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2018-03-12 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201803-04.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-09-22 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security update.
File : debian_DLA-1104.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-09-19 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-3977.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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Date Informations
2018-03-11 21:18:56
  • First insertion