Package : smarty
Vulnerability : several
Problem type : remote
Debian-specific: no
CVE Id(s) : CVE-2008-4810 CVE-2009-1669
Debian Bug : 504328 529810
Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in Smarty, a PHP
templating engine. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project
identifies the following problems:
CVE-2008-4810
The _expand_quoted_text function allows for certain restrictions in
templates, like function calling and PHP execution, to be bypassed.
CVE-2009-1669
The smarty_function_math function allows context-dependent attackers
to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in the equation
attribute of the math function.
For the old stable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed
in version 2.6.14-1etch2.
For the stable distribution (lenny), these problems have been fixed in
version 2.6.20-1.2.
For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems will be fixed soon.
We recommend that you upgrade your smarty package.
Upgrade instructions
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wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.
If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:
apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages
You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.
Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 alias etch
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