Summary
The remote host is missing an update to smarty
announced via advisory DSA 1520-1.
Solution
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%201520-1
Insight
It was discovered that the regex module in Smarty, a PHP templating engine, allows attackers to call arbitrary PHP functions via templates using the regex_replace plugin by a specially crafted search string.
For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 2.6.14-1etch1.
For the old stable distribution (sarge), this problem has been fixed in version 2.6.9-1sarge1.
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 2.6.18-1.1.
We recommend that you upgrade your smarty package.
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2008-1066 -
CVSS Base Score: 7.5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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