Newsbeuter 1.1 released: contains security fix, please upgrade

Newsbeuter 1.1 was just released. Grab it from here. It contains a security fix for an issue where opening specially crafted URLs with the browser could lead to shell command execution, so an upgrade is highly recommended.


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4 Responses to “Newsbeuter 1.1 released: contains security fix, please upgrade”

  1. Don McArthur Says:
    September 1, 2008 at 2:22 pm | Reply

    I assume this will be included in the Ubuntu repos for automated updates soon enough?

  2. Andreas Krennmair Says:
    September 1, 2008 at 3:16 pm | Reply

    Don McArthur: the Debian package is already updated, so I assume they will soon update this, too.

  3. Don McArthur Says:
    September 1, 2008 at 7:20 pm | Reply

    Good, thanks, and I will let you know.

  4. Don McArthur Says:
    October 1, 2008 at 1:21 pm | Reply

    Hmmm .. just his morning (01 Oct 2008) the update showed up for Ubuntu Hardy Heron – to version 0.7.

    ;^)

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