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Debian DSA-294-1 : gkrellm-newsticker - missing quoting, incomplete parser

high Nessus Plugin ID 15131

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

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.

Solution

Upgrade the gkrellm-newsticker package.

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.

See Also

http://www.debian.org/security/2003/dsa-294

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 15131

File Name: debian_DSA-294.nasl

Version: 1.21

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/29/2004

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:gkrellm-newsticker, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:3.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: No exploit is required

Patch Publication Date: 4/23/2003

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2003-0205, CVE-2003-0206

BID: 7414

DSA: 294