Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1251-1 netrick -- insufficient escaping

Date Reported:
21 Jan 2007
Affected Packages:
netrik
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 404233.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2006-6678.
More information:

It has been discovered that netrik, a text mode WWW browser with vi like keybindings, doesn't properly sanitize temporary filenames when editing textareas which could allow attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters.

For the stable distribution (sarge), this problem has been fixed in version 1.15.4-1sarge1.

For the upcoming stable distribution (etch) this problem has been fixed in version 1.15.3-1.1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 1.15.3-1.1.

We recommend that you upgrade your netrik package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)

Source:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netrik/netrik_1.15.3-1sarge1.dsc
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netrik/netrik_1.15.3-1sarge1.diff.gz
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netrik/netrik_1.15.3.orig.tar.gz
Alpha:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netrik/netrik_1.15.3-1sarge1_alpha.deb
AMD64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netrik/netrik_1.15.3-1sarge1_amd64.deb
ARM:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netrik/netrik_1.15.3-1sarge1_arm.deb
HPPA:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netrik/netrik_1.15.3-1sarge1_hppa.deb
Intel IA-32:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netrik/netrik_1.15.3-1sarge1_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netrik/netrik_1.15.3-1sarge1_ia64.deb
Motorola 680x0:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netrik/netrik_1.15.3-1sarge1_m68k.deb
Big endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netrik/netrik_1.15.3-1sarge1_mips.deb
Little endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netrik/netrik_1.15.3-1sarge1_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netrik/netrik_1.15.3-1sarge1_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netrik/netrik_1.15.3-1sarge1_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netrik/netrik_1.15.3-1sarge1_sparc.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.