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-rw-r--r--gnu/local.mk2
-rw-r--r--gnu/packages/patches/newsbeuter-CVE-2017-12904.patch34
-rw-r--r--gnu/packages/patches/newsbeuter-CVE-2017-14500.patch43
-rw-r--r--gnu/packages/syndication.scm58
4 files changed, 6 insertions, 131 deletions
diff --git a/gnu/local.mk b/gnu/local.mk
index 44868d4bba..0a1fe337fd 100644
--- a/gnu/local.mk
+++ b/gnu/local.mk
@@ -921,8 +921,6 @@ dist_patch_DATA = \
%D%/packages/patches/netsurf-system-utf8proc.patch \
%D%/packages/patches/netsurf-y2038-tests.patch \
%D%/packages/patches/netsurf-longer-test-timeout.patch \
- %D%/packages/patches/newsbeuter-CVE-2017-12904.patch \
- %D%/packages/patches/newsbeuter-CVE-2017-14500.patch \
%D%/packages/patches/ngircd-handle-zombies.patch \
%D%/packages/patches/ninja-zero-mtime.patch \
%D%/packages/patches/node-test-http2-server-rst-stream.patch \
diff --git a/gnu/packages/patches/newsbeuter-CVE-2017-12904.patch b/gnu/packages/patches/newsbeuter-CVE-2017-12904.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 8e90502469..0000000000
--- a/gnu/packages/patches/newsbeuter-CVE-2017-12904.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,34 +0,0 @@
-Fix CVE-2017-12904:
-
-https://github.com/akrennmair/newsbeuter/issues/591
-https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=2017-12904
-
-Patch copied from the Debian package of newsbeuter, version 2.9-5+deb9u1.
-
-Adapted from upstream source repository:
-
-https://github.com/akrennmair/newsbeuter/commit/96e9506ae9e252c548665152d1b8968297128307
-
-Description: Fix a RCE vulnerability in the bookmark command
- Newsbeuter didn't properly escape the title and description fields before
- passing them to the bookmarking program which could lead to remote code
- execution using the shells command substitution functionality (e.g. "$()", ``,
- etc)
-
-Origin: upstream, https://github.com/akrennmair/newsbeuter/commit/96e9506ae9e252c548665152d1b8968297128307
-Last-Update: 2017-08-18
-
---- newsbeuter-2.9.orig/src/controller.cpp
-+++ newsbeuter-2.9/src/controller.cpp
-@@ -1274,9 +1274,10 @@ std::string controller::bookmark(const s
- std::string bookmark_cmd = cfg.get_configvalue("bookmark-cmd");
- bool is_interactive = cfg.get_configvalue_as_bool("bookmark-interactive");
- if (bookmark_cmd.length() > 0) {
-- std::string cmdline = utils::strprintf("%s '%s' %s %s",
-+ std::string cmdline = utils::strprintf("%s '%s' '%s' '%s'",
- bookmark_cmd.c_str(), utils::replace_all(url,"'", "%27").c_str(),
-- stfl::quote(title).c_str(), stfl::quote(description).c_str());
-+ utils::replace_all(title,"'", "%27").c_str(),
-+ utils::replace_all(description,"'", "%27").c_str());
-
- LOG(LOG_DEBUG, "controller::bookmark: cmd = %s", cmdline.c_str());
diff --git a/gnu/packages/patches/newsbeuter-CVE-2017-14500.patch b/gnu/packages/patches/newsbeuter-CVE-2017-14500.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 449105e42a..0000000000
--- a/gnu/packages/patches/newsbeuter-CVE-2017-14500.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,43 +0,0 @@
-https://github.com/akrennmair/newsbeuter/commit/26f5a4350f3ab5507bb8727051c87bb04660f333.patch
-http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-14500
-
-From 26f5a4350f3ab5507bb8727051c87bb04660f333 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: Alexander Batischev <eual.jp@gmail.com>
-Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2017 19:31:43 +0300
-Subject: [PATCH] Work around shell code in podcast names (#598)
-
----
- src/pb_controller.cpp | 6 +++---
- src/queueloader.cpp | 2 +-
- 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
-
-diff --git a/src/pb_controller.cpp b/src/pb_controller.cpp
-index 09b5e897..213216cd 100644
---- a/src/pb_controller.cpp
-+++ b/src/pb_controller.cpp
-@@ -306,9 +306,9 @@ void pb_controller::play_file(const std::string& file) {
- if (player == "")
- return;
- cmdline.append(player);
-- cmdline.append(" \"");
-- cmdline.append(utils::replace_all(file,"\"", "\\\""));
-- cmdline.append("\"");
-+ cmdline.append(" \'");
-+ cmdline.append(utils::replace_all(file,"'", "%27"));
-+ cmdline.append("\'");
- stfl::reset();
- LOG(LOG_DEBUG, "pb_controller::play_file: running `%s'", cmdline.c_str());
- ::system(cmdline.c_str());
-diff --git a/src/queueloader.cpp b/src/queueloader.cpp
-index c1dabdd8..ae725e04 100644
---- a/src/queueloader.cpp
-+++ b/src/queueloader.cpp
-@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ std::string queueloader::get_filename(const std::string& str) {
- strftime(lbuf, sizeof(lbuf), "%Y-%b-%d-%H%M%S.unknown", localtime(&t));
- fn.append(lbuf);
- } else {
-- fn.append(base);
-+ fn.append(utils::replace_all(base, "'", "%27"));
- }
- return fn;
- }
diff --git a/gnu/packages/syndication.scm b/gnu/packages/syndication.scm
index 086b132b79..3e0cbe832a 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/syndication.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/syndication.scm
@@ -25,59 +25,9 @@
#:use-module (gnu packages documentation)
#:use-module (gnu packages gettext)
#:use-module (gnu packages ncurses)
- #:use-module (gnu packages perl)
#:use-module (gnu packages pkg-config)
- #:use-module (gnu packages ruby)
- #:use-module (gnu packages xml)
- #:use-module (gnu packages web))
-
-(define-public newsbeuter
- (package
- (name "newsbeuter")
- (version "2.9")
- (source
- (origin
- (method url-fetch)
- (uri (string-append "https://newsbeuter.org/downloads/newsbeuter-"
- version ".tar.gz"))
- (patches (search-patches "newsbeuter-CVE-2017-12904.patch"
- "newsbeuter-CVE-2017-14500.patch"))
- (sha256
- (base32
- "1j1x0hgwxz11dckk81ncalgylj5y5fgw5bcmp9qb5hq9kc0vza3l"))))
- (build-system gnu-build-system)
- (arguments
- '(#:phases
- (modify-phases %standard-phases
- (replace 'configure
- (lambda _
- (substitute* "config.sh"
- ;; try to remove this at the next release
- (("ncursesw5") "ncursesw6"))
- #t)))
- #:make-flags (list (string-append "prefix=" (assoc-ref %outputs "out")))
- #:test-target "test"))
- (native-inputs
- `(("gettext" ,gettext-minimal)
- ("perl" ,perl)
- ("pkg-config" ,pkg-config)
- ("ruby" ,ruby))) ; for tests
- (inputs
- `(("curl" ,curl)
- ("json-c" ,json-c-0.12) ; check whether json-c-0.12 can be removed
- ("ncurses" ,ncurses)
- ("stfl" ,stfl)
- ("sqlite" ,sqlite)
- ("libxml2" ,libxml2)))
- (home-page "https://newsbeuter.org/")
- (synopsis "Text mode rss feed reader with podcast support")
- (description "Newsbeuter is an innovative RSS feed reader for the text
-console. It supports OPML import/exports, HTML rendering, podcast (podbeuter),
-offline reading, searching and storing articles to your filesystem, and many
-more features. Its user interface is coherent, easy to use, and might look
-common to users of @command{mutt} and @command{slrn}.")
- (license (list license:gpl2+ ; filter/*
- license:expat)))) ; everything else
+ #:use-module (gnu packages web)
+ #:use-module (gnu packages xml))
(define-public newsboat
(package
@@ -128,3 +78,7 @@ file system, and many more features.
It started life as a fork of the currently unmaintained Newsbeuter.")
(license (list license:gpl2+ ; filter/*
license:expat)))) ; everything else
+
+(define-public newsbeuter
+ ;; Newsbeuter is unmaintained with multiple CVEs, and was forked as Newsboat.
+ (deprecated-package "newsbeuter" newsboat))