MGASA-2014-0468

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    MGASA-2014-0468

    Published: 21 Nov 2014Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026

    Summary: Updated php-smarty packages fix security vulnerabilities

    Details: Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the SmartyException class in Smarty (aka smarty-php) before 3.1.12 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors that trigger a Smarty exception (CVE-2012-4437). Smarty before 3.1.21 allows remote attackers to bypass the secure mode restrictions and execute arbitrary PHP code as demonstrated by "{literal}<{/literal}script language=php>" in a template (CVE-2014-8350).

    References: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0468.html, https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14465, https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-November/142696.html

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: php-smarty

    Purl: pkg:rpm/mageia/php-smarty?arch=source&distro=mageia-3

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -3.1.21-1.mga3

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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