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. For the old stable distribution , these problems have been fixed in version 2.6.14-1etch2. For the stable distribution , these problems have been fixed in version 2.6.20-1.2. For the unstable distribution , these problems will be fixed soon. We recommend that you upgrade your smarty package.