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Drupal 6 security update for Print module (CRITICAL!)

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by David Snopek on October 3, 2018 - 4:30pm

As you may know, Drupal 6 has reached End-of-Life (EOL) which means the Drupal Security Team is no longer doing Security Advisories or working on security patches for Drupal 6 core or contrib modules - but the Drupal 6 LTS vendors are and we're one of them!

Today, there is a Critical security release for the Print module to fix a Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability.

The Print module provides printer-friendly versions of content, including send by e-mail and PDF versions.

The module doesn't sufficiently sanitize the arguments passed to the wkhtmltopdf executable, or HTML passed to dompdf or other PDF generation tools.

See the security advisory for Drupal 7 for more information.

NOTE: This vulnerability has a lower risk in Drupal 6 than in Drupal 7 (where it's Highly Critical). This is because you can't pass shell commands to execute using the HTTP basic auth user/pass, like you can in Drupal 7.

Here you can download the Drupal 6 patch.

If you have a Drupal 6 site using the Print module, we recommend you update immediately! We have already deployed the patch for all of our Drupal 6 Long-Term Support clients. :-)

If you'd like all your Drupal 6 modules to receive security updates and have the fixes deployed the same day they're released, please check out our D6LTS plans.

Note: if you use the myDropWizard module (totally free!), you'll be alerted to these and any future security updates, and will be able to use drush to install them (even though they won't necessarily have a release on Drupal.org).

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