Debian Security Advisory 1919 smarty – several vulnerabilities

Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in Smarty, a PHP templating engine. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems:

• CVE-2008-4810

  The _expand_quoted_text function allows for certain restrictions in templates, like function calling and PHP execution, to be bypassed.

• CVE-2009-1669

  The smarty_function_math function allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in the equation attribute of the math function…