=========================================================== Ubuntu Security Notice USN-791-3 June 24, 2009 smarty vulnerability CVE-2009-1669 =========================================================== A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases: Ubuntu 9.04 This advisory also applies to the corresponding versions of Kubuntu, Edubuntu, and Xubuntu. The problem can be corrected by upgrading your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 9.04: smarty 2.6.22-1ubuntu1.1 In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the necessary changes. Details follow: It was discovered that Smarty did not correctly filter certain math inputs. A remote attacker using Smarty via a web service could exploit this to execute subsets of shell commands as the web server user. Updated packages for Ubuntu 9.04: Source archives: http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/s/smarty/smarty_2.6.22-1ubuntu1.1.diff.gz Size/MD5: 5384 cddf82ac12a8bf55573d7382cbbb3609 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/s/smarty/smarty_2.6.22-1ubuntu1.1.dsc Size/MD5: 1220 b96705a4b32e7e7e0965a71986f908b8 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/s/smarty/smarty_2.6.22.orig.tar.gz Size/MD5: 158529 a6e1d94453104c42374901da5139744c Architecture independent packages: http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/s/smarty/smarty_2.6.22-1ubuntu1.1_all.deb Size/MD5: 204018 7ed9dc3ba0843ff6b2acf57f94ee31c3