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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<?xml-stylesheet href="/xsl/glsa.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>
+<?xml-stylesheet href="/xsl/guide.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>
+<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
+
+<glsa id="200809-12">
+  <title>Newsbeuter: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code</title>
+  <synopsis>
+    Insufficient input validation in newsbeuter may allow remote attackers to
+    execute arbitrary shell commands.
+  </synopsis>
+  <product type="ebuild">newsbeuter</product>
+  <announced>September 22, 2008</announced>
+  <revised>September 22, 2008: 01</revised>
+  <bug>236506</bug>
+  <access>remote</access>
+  <affected>
+    <package name="net-news/newsbeuter" auto="yes" arch="*">
+      <unaffected range="ge">1.2</unaffected>
+      <vulnerable range="lt">1.2</vulnerable>
+    </package>
+  </affected>
+  <background>
+    <p>
+    Newsbeuter is a RSS/Atom feed reader for the text console.
+    </p>
+  </background>
+  <description>
+    <p>
+    J.H.M. Dassen reported that the open-in-browser command does not
+    properly escape shell metacharacters in the URL before passing it to
+    system().
+    </p>
+  </description>
+  <impact type="normal">
+    <p>
+    A remote attacker could entice a user to open a feed with specially
+    crafted URLs, possibly resulting in the remote execution of arbitrary
+    shell commands with the privileges of the user running the application.
+    </p>
+  </impact>
+  <workaround>
+    <p>
+    There is no known workaround at this time.
+    </p>
+  </workaround>
+  <resolution>
+    <p>
+    All Newsbeuter users should upgrade to the latest version:
+    </p>
+    <code>
+    # emerge --sync
+    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose &quot;&gt;=net-news/newsbeuter-1.2&quot;</code>
+  </resolution>
+  <references>
+    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-3907">CVE-2008-3907</uri>
+  </references>
+  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Thu, 11 Sep 2008 17:38:14 +0000">
+    keytoaster
+  </metadata>
+  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Thu, 18 Sep 2008 21:45:41 +0000">
+    p-y
+  </metadata>
+  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Thu, 18 Sep 2008 21:45:49 +0000">
+    p-y
+  </metadata>
+</glsa>