GLSA 201006-13: Smarty: Multiple vulnerabilities

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Severity:	normal
Title:	Smarty: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date:	06/02/2010
Bugs:	#212147, #243856, #270494
ID:	201006-13

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities in the Smarty template engine might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary PHP code.

Background

Smarty is a template engine for PHP.

Affected packages

Package	Vulnerable	Unaffected	Architecture(s)
dev-php/smarty	< 2.6.23	>= 2.6.23	All supported architectures

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Smarty:

The vendor reported that the modifier.regex_replace.php plug-in contains an input sanitation flaw related to the ASCII NUL character (CVE-2008-1066).
The vendor reported that the _expand_quoted_text() function in libs/Smarty_Compiler.class.php contains an input sanitation flaw via multiple vectors (CVE-2008-4810, CVE-2008-4811).
Nine:Situations:Group::bookoo reported that the smarty_function_math() function in libs/plugins/function.math.php contains input sanitation flaw (CVE-2009-1669).

Impact

These issues might allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary PHP code.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All Smarty users should upgrade to an unaffected version:

    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-php/smarty-2.6.23"

NOTE: This is a legacy GLSA. Updates for all affected architectures are available since June 2, 2009. It is likely that your system is already no longer affected by this issue.

References

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201006-13.xml

Concerns?

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.