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Albatross Arbitrary Command Execution Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA18457
Release Date: 2006-01-16
Popularity: 5,132 views

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: System access
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:Albatross 1.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2006-0044


Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in Albatross, which can be exploited by malicious users to compromise a vulnerable system.

The vulnerability is caused due to an error in context.py in the validation of certain user-supplied data. This can be exploited to execute user-supplied data as part of the template.

Solution:
Update to version 1.33.
http://www.object-craft.com.au/projects/albatross/download.html

Provided and/or discovered by:
Reported in a Debian advisory.

Original Advisory:
Debian:
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-942


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