Debian Security Advisory DSA 294-1 (gkrellm-newsticker)

# OpenVAS Vulnerability Test
# $Id: deb_294_1.nasl 6616 2017-07-07 12:10:49Z cfischer $
# Description: Auto-generated from advisory DSA 294-1
#
# Authors:
# Thomas Reinke <[email protected]>
#
# Copyright:
# Copyright (c) 2007 E-Soft Inc. http://www.securityspace.com
# Text descriptions are largerly excerpted from the referenced
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include("revisions-lib.inc");
tag_insight = "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:

CVE-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.

CVE-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.

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.

For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems is not yet fixed.

We recommend that you upgrade your gkrellm-newsticker package.";
tag_summary = "The remote host is missing an update to gkrellm-newsticker
announced via advisory DSA 294-1.";

tag_solution = "https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%20294-1";

if(description)
{
 script_id(53366);
 script_version("$Revision: 6616 $");
 script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"$Date: 2017-07-07 14:10:49 +0200 (Fri, 07 Jul 2017) $");
 script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2008-01-17 22:28:10 +0100 (Thu, 17 Jan 2008)");
 script_cve_id("CVE-2003-0205", "CVE-2003-0206");
 script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"7.5");
 script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");
 script_name("Debian Security Advisory DSA 294-1 (gkrellm-newsticker)");



 script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);

 script_copyright("Copyright (c) 2005 E-Soft Inc. http://www.securityspace.com");
 script_family("Debian Local Security Checks");
 script_dependencies("gather-package-list.nasl");
 script_mandatory_keys("ssh/login/debian_linux", "ssh/login/packages");
 script_tag(name : "solution" , value : tag_solution);
 script_tag(name : "insight" , value : tag_insight);
 script_tag(name : "summary" , value : tag_summary);
 script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"package");
 script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
 exit(0);
}

#
# The script code starts here
#

include("pkg-lib-deb.inc");

res = "";
report = "";
if ((res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"gkrellm-newsticker", ver:"0.3-3.1", rls:"DEB3.0")) != NULL) {
    report += res;
}

if (report != "") {
    security_message(data:report);
} else if (__pkg_match) {
    exit(99); # Not vulnerable.
}