A new Smarty vulnerability update is available for Ubuntu Linux. Here the announcement:

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-791-3 June 24, 2009
smarty vulnerability
CVE-2009-1669
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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


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