Bug 1493595 (CVE-2017-14500)

Summary:	CVE-2017-14500 newsbeuter: Improper neutralization of special elements used in an OS Command
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Andrej Nemec <anemec>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version:	unspecified	CC:	fedora
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Description Andrej Nemec 2017-09-20 14:42:35 UTC

Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command in the podcast playback function of Podbeuter in Newsbeuter 0.3 through 2.9 allows remote attackers to perform user-assisted code execution by crafting an RSS item with a media enclosure (i.e., a podcast file) that includes shell metacharacters in its filename, related to pb_controller.cpp and queueloader.cpp, a different vulnerability than CVE-2017-12904.

Upstream issue:

https://github.com/akrennmair/newsbeuter/issues/598

Upstream patch:

https://github.com/akrennmair/newsbeuter/commit/26f5a4350f3ab5507bb8727051c87bb04660f333

References:

http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/09/16/1

Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2017-09-20 14:43:00 UTC

Created newsbeuter tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1484519]

Comment 2 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-06-08 03:25:56 UTC

This CVE Bugzilla entry is for community support informational purposes only as it does not affect a package in a commercially supported Red Hat product. Refer to the dependent bugs for status of those individual community products.